EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 8:22
22People who hate you will be ashamed. Wicked people will have nowhere to live.’
Job 8:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
- New International Version (NIV)Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.”
Context of Job 8:22
20Listen! God never turns away from a man who is not guilty. Nor will he ever help wicked people. 21He will surely make you happy again. You will be able to laugh and shout with joy. People who hate you will be ashamed. Wicked people will have nowhere to live.’
Read all of Job 8Job 8:22 word by word
שֹׂנְאֶ֥יךָ יִלְבְּשׁוּ־בֹ֑שֶׁת וְאֹ֖הֶל רְשָׁעִ֣ים אֵינֶֽנּוּ׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 8:22
- Psalms 35:26Punish those people who are happy when I have troubles. Make them ashamed and confused! Bring down those proud people who laugh at me. Make them feel very ashamed.
- Psalms 109:29Shame will come on my enemies. It will cover them like a coat.
- Psalms 132:18I will cause his enemies to be ashamed. But his own kingdom will be great!’
- 1 Peter 5:5I want to say the same thing to you who are young men. You must respect the authority of the leaders. All of you who are believers must respect one another. Do not think that you are more important than other people. The Bible says: ‘God is against proud people. But he is kind to humble people.’
- Job 8:18But finally, someone pulls those weeds out of the ground. When that happens, nobody knows that the weeds were ever there.
- Job 7:21You should agree to forgive my sins. You should say that I am not guilty. I will soon die and I will go into my grave. Then you will carefully look for me, but I will not be there.’
Commentaries on Job 8:22
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame - When they see your returning prosperity, and the evidences of the divine favor. They will then be ashamed that they regarded you as a hypocrite, and that they reproached you in your trials. And the dwelling-place of the wicked - The wicked shall be destroyed, and his family shall pass away. That is, God will favor the righteous, but punish the wicked. This opinion the friends of Job maintain all along…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-22Verses 20-22 Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he shall not be cast away for ever. Sin brings ruin on persons and families. Yet to argue, that Job was an ungodly, wicked man, was unjust and uncharitable. The mistake in these reasonings arose from Job's friends not distinguishing between the present state…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. The haters of Job are the wicked. They shall be clothed with shame (Jr 3:25; Psa 35:26; 109:29), at the failure of their hope that Job would utterly perish, and because they, instead of him, come to naught.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- 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
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