Job 8:22
Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21While He fills your mouth with laughter, || And your lips with shouting,
Cross References
Job 8:18If [one] destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you!
Psalms 35:26They are ashamed and confounded together, || Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, || Who are magnifying themselves against me.
Psalms 132:18I clothe His enemies [with] shame, || And His crown flourishes on Him!”
Zechariah 5:4“I have brought it out,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “and it has come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who has sworn in My Name with a falsehood, and it has remained in the midst of his house, and has consumed it, both its wood and its stones.”
Matthew Henry on Job 8:21-22
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. Bildad here, in the close of his discourse, sums up what he has to say in a few words, setting before Job life and death, the blessing and the curse, assuring him that as he was so he should fare, and therefore they might conclude that as he fared so… Read the whole commentary →