Job 22:19
The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
In Context
18Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
20Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
Cross References
Job 9:23If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
Psalms 52:6Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
Psalms 97:8Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord.
Proverbs 11:10When it goeth well with the just the city shall rejoice: and when the wicked perish there shall be praise.
Revelation 19:1After these things I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation, and glory, and power is to 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 →