New Living Translation
Job 22:20
20They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
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 was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking. 19“The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt. They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’ 21“Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you. 22Listen to his instructions, and store them 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“Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 8:3Does God twist justice? Does the Almighty twist what is right?
- Job 15:5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.
- Job 20:18They will give back everything they worked for. Their wealth will bring them no joy.
- Job 21:27“Look, I know what you’re thinking. I know the schemes you plot against me.
- Luke 13:1About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple.
- Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: “The fire of God has fallen from heaven and burned up your sheep and all the shepherds. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”
- Job 20:26Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness. A wildfire will devour their goods, consuming all they have left.
- Genesis 19:24Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Luke 17:29until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- 2 Peter 2:6Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.
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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