Job 22:19
The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
In Context
18though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.
20Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?
Cross References
Job 9:23If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
Psalms 52:6They have not called upon God. In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.
Psalms 97:8The rivers will clap their hands, the mountains will exult together,
Proverbs 11:10In the good of the just, the city shall exult. And in the perdition of the impious, there shall be praise.
Revelation 19:1After these things, I heard something like the voice of many multitudes in heaven, saying: “Alleluia! Praise and glory and power is for our God.
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 →