Job 22:20
saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 ridicule them,
21“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
Cross References
Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burnt up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 15:30He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
Luke 17:29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the sky 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 →