Job 22:20
Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.
21So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.
Cross References
Job 1:16And while he was still speaking, another arrived, and he said, “The fire of God fell from heaven, and, having struck the sheep and the servants, it consumed them; and I alone escaped to tell you.”
Job 8:3Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
Job 15:30He will not withdraw from the darkness; the flame will burn up his branches, and he will be defeated by the breath of his own mouth.
Job 20:26All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.
Job 21:27Surely, I know your thoughts and your sinful judgments against me.
Luke 17:29Then, on the day that Lot departed from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and it 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 →