Job 22:20
[Saying], Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn,
21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.
Cross References
Job 1:16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.
Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Luke 17:29But in that day Lot went out from Sodom he rained fire and brimstone from the sky, and destroyed them all.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:16-21
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet 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 them to scorn. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire… Read the whole commentary →