New King James Version
Job 22:20
20‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.’
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 Living Translation (NLT)They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
Context of Job 22:20
18Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19“The righteous see it and are glad, And the innocent laugh at them: ‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.’ 21“Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; Thereby good will come to you. 22Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, And lay up His words in your heart.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:20 word by word
אִם־לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:20
- Job 4:7“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?
- Job 8:3Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- Job 20:18He will restore that for which he labored, And will not swallow it down; From the proceeds of business He will get no enjoyment.
- Job 21:27“Look, I know your thoughts, And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
- Luke 13:1There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
- Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. An unfanned fire will consume him; It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent.
- Genesis 19:24Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
- Luke 17:29but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
- 2 Peter 2:6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
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
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
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