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

18Yet, he filled their homes with good things. (The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.) 19The righteous saw it and were glad, and the innocent made fun of them by saying, ‘Indeed, their wealth has been wiped out, and a fire has burned up what ⌞little⌟ they had left.’ 21“Be in harmony and at peace with God. In this way you will have prosperity. 22Accept instruction from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart.

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 4:7“Now think about this: Which innocent person ⌞ever⌟ died ⌞an untimely death⌟? Find me a decent person who has been destroyed.
• Job 8:3Does God distort justice, or does the Almighty distort righteousness?
• Job 15:5Your sin teaches you what to say. You choose ⌞to talk with⌟ a sly tongue.
• Job 20:18He will give back what he earned without enjoying it. He will get no joy from the profits of his business
• Job 21:27“You see, I know your thoughts and the schemes you plot against me
• Luke 13:1At that time some people reported to Jesus about some Galileans whom Pilate had executed while they were sacrificing animals.
• Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another ⌞messenger⌟ came and said, “A fire from God fell from heaven and completely burned your flocks and servants. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”
• Job 20:26Total darkness waits in hiding for his treasure. A fire that no one fans will burn him. Whatever is left in his tent will be devoured.
• Genesis 19:24Then the Lord made burning sulfur and fire rain out of heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Luke 17:29But on the day that Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from the sky and destroyed all of them.
• 2 Peter 2:6God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes. He made those cities an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them.

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