Job 22:20

Job 22:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
• New International Version (NIV)‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.’

Context of Job 22:20

18But it was God who gave them many good things to enjoy. So I cannot accept the ideas of wicked people. 19God punishes wicked people. When righteous people see that happen, they are happy. Good people then laugh at wicked people. They say, “God has destroyed our enemies. He has burned all their valuable things in a fire.” 21So, Job, agree to accept God's ways. Have peace in your mind about him. Then you will again have good success. 22Listen to his teaching. Remember carefully what he tells you.

Job 22:20 word by word

אִם־לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whereasאִם'im · if: surely yesH518
• our substanceקִיםqîym · adversaryH7009
• is not cut downכָּחַדkâchad · to hideH3582
• but the remnantיֶ֫תֶרyether · remainderH3499
• of them the fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• consumethאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398

Cross-references for Job 22:20

• Job 4:7Think about this: People who are not guilty of sin do not suddenly die. God does not destroy people who do good things.
• Job 8:3Surely you know that God is fair. The Almighty God never changes right things into wrong things.
• Job 15:5It is your sin that causes you to speak like that. You try to say clever things that will deceive people.
• Job 20:18He will have to give back everything that he owned. He will not enjoy the things that he has worked for.
• Job 21:27I know what you are thinking. You want to show that I am guilty.
• Luke 13:1At that time, some people were with Jesus. They told him what happened to some people from Galilee. They had been burning animals as a gift for God. Pilate sent some soldiers to kill them.
• Job 1:16That servant was still speaking, when another servant arrived. He said to Job, ‘God has sent lightning down from the sky. It has killed your sheep and your servants. I was the only one who escaped. I ran here to tell you what has happened.’
• Job 20:26All his riches disappear in the dark. God will send a fire to destroy him. It will destroy all his things that remain.
• Genesis 19:24Then the Lord poured sulphur that was on fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah. It fell from the sky like rain.
• Luke 17:29But one day Lot went away from Sodom. On that same day, God caused it to rain fire and burning stones from the sky. This killed all the people in Sodom.
• 2 Peter 2:6Later, God punished the people who lived in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Because they did bad things, God decided to destroy them. He burned those cities completely, so that only ashes remained. When God did that, he showed what will happen to all people who refuse to obey him.

Commentaries on Job 22:20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Whereas our substance is not cut down - We, who fear the Lord, still continue in health and peace; whereas they who have departed from him are destroyed even to their very remnant. Mr. Good thinks that קימנו kimanu, which we translate our substance, is the same as the Arabic (Arabic) our people or tribe; and hence he translates the clause thus: "For our tribe is not cut off; while even the remnant of these a conflagration consumed." The reference here is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-20Verses 15-20 Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-20The righteous see it and are glad: Those in a right relationship with God will be glad to see justice done and wrong things made right (see also Psalm 58:10–11; Revelation 19:1–4). Eliphaz's perspective overlooked God's wish "that the wicked should turn from their ways and live" (see Ezekiel 33:11).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. The triumphant speech of the pious. If "substance" be retained, translate, rather as the Septuagint, "Has not their substance been taken away, and ... ?" But the Hebrew is rather, "Truly our adversary is cut down" [Gesenius]. The same opposition exists between the godly and ungodly seed as between the unfallen and restored Adam and Satan (adversary); this forms the groundwork of the book (Job 1:1-2:13; Ge 3:15). remnant--all that "is left" of the…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Acquaint
• Decree
• Lift
• Sudden
• Thereby
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz

Commentaries on Job 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings