Job 22:20
Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
In Context
19The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
Cross References
Job 1:16And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, and hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 8:3Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
Job 15:30He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.
Job 20:26All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Luke 17:29But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, 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 →