Job 22:20
If our assailants do not vanish, then, their abundance, a fire consumeth!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 and rejoice, and, the innocent, shall laugh them to scorn:
21Shew thyself to be one with him—I pray thee—and prosper, thereby, shall there come on thee blessing.
Cross References
Job 1:16Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said,—A fire of God, fell out of the heavens, and burned up the sheep and the young men, and consumed them; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.
Job 8:3Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!
Job 20:26Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,—There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,—it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent:
Job 21:27Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!
Luke 17:29But, on the day Lot came out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone 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 →