Job 22:20
“Is not he destroyed that rose up against us, and hath not the fire consumed what they had left?”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19The righteous will see it, and be glad; and the innocent will laugh them to scorn.
21Do but become acquainted with him, and be at peace: thereby will happiness come unto thee.
Cross References
Job 1:16This one was yet speaking, when another came, and said, A fire of God fell from heaven, and burnt among the sheep and the young men, and consumed them; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.
Job 8:3Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 15:30He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Job 20:26Entire darkness is laid by for his treasures: a fire not urged by blowing will consume him; it will destroy any one that is left in his tent.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me.
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 →