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Job 22:20 KJV
Job · chapter 22 · verse 20
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.Job 22:20 · King James Version
Job 22:20 in context
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- substanceqîyman opponentH7009 →
- Whereasʼimused very widely as demonstrative, lo!H518 →
- remnantyetherproperly, an overhangingH3499 →
- fireʼêshfireH784 →
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Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-20