Job 22:20
Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
21Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
Cross References
Job 1:16And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
Job 20:26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.
Job 21:27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Luke 17:29And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, 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 →