Job 22:20
saying, ‘Our enemies are destroyed, and fire has burned up all that's left of them.’
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19Those who do right rejoice when they see the destruction of the wicked, and the innocent mock them,
21Come back to God and be reconciled to him, and you'll be prosperous again.
Cross References
Job 1:16While he was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and set the sheep and shepherds on fire and burned them up. Only I escaped to bring you this news.”
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 15:30They will not escape from the darkness. Like a tree whose shoots are burned up in a forest fire, the breath of God will blow him away.
Job 20:26All they value will disappear into the darkness; divine fire will destroy them; all they have left will go up in smoke.
Job 21:27Look, I know what you're thinking, and your schemes to do me wrong.
Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down 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 →