Job 22:20
‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:
21Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
Cross References
Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur 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 →