Revised Literal Translation
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 houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. 21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
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אִם־לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 22:20
- Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
- Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- Job 20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Luke 13:1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
- Job 1:16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
- Job 20:26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
- Genesis 19:24Then Yhwh rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yhwh out of heaven;
- Luke 17:29But the same 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 Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should 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
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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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