20 'Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.'
20 Whereas our substance
20 saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'
20 'At last! Our enemies - wiped out. Everything they had and stood for is up in smoke!'
20 'Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.'
20 They will say, 'See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 22:20
Commentary on Job 22:15-20
(Read Job 22:15-20)
Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.