Job 22:18
Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
In Context
17Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
19The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:7The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth.
Job 21:16Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
Psalms 17:14from the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
Acts 14:17And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people from sacrificing to them.
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 →