Job 22:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Whereas our substanced is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. ”

• Job 22:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Whereas our substance is not cut down - Margin, or, “Estate” Gesenius supposes that this means our adversary or enemy. The word used here ( קים qı̂ym ) he regards as derived from קוּם qûm...

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• Job 22:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Whereas (o) our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of (p) them the fire consumeth. (o) That is, the state and preservation of the godly, is hid under God's wings. (p) Meaning of the wicked....

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• Job 22:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 22. Third Speech of Eliphaz. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. Job 22:1-5 . Is it n...

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• Job 22:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Whereas. Supply Ellipsis (App-6), "[and say] Surely", &c. See translation below.

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• Job 22:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. Whereas our substance is not cut down - We, who fear the Lord, still continue in health and peace; whereas they who...

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• Job 22:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Hast thou marked? &c.— As the universal deluge was a most signal and memorable instance of God's displeasure against wickedness and wicked men, Eliphaz takes occasion to enlarge upon it for fiv...

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• Job 22:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. Whereas our substance is not cut down. The triumphant speech of the pious. If "substance" be retained transl...

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• Job 22:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Last Speech of Eliphaz 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or l...

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• Job 22:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  ( 20 ) Whereas our substance... — These are probably the words of the righteous and the innocent: “Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them the fire hath consu...

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• Job 22:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1-30 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to...

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• Job 22:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Acquaint Thyself with God” Job 22:1-30 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,...

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• Job 22:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he ma...

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• Job 22:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (5) В¶ Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? (6) For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (7) Thou hast not given wate...

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• Job 22:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Whereas our substance is not cut down ,.... As yours is; Noah and his family were preserved in the ark, and the creatures with him, and sufficient sustenance was laid up for them all, when everythin...

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• Job 22:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. Ver. 20. Whereas our substance is not cut down ] That is, while life lasteth, and while it is called today; befor...

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• Job 22:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Whereas Or rather, seeing that , or, because , when wicked men are destroyed, they are preserved. He should have said their substance; but he changes the person, and saith, our substance; eit...

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• Job 22:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well wo...

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• Job 22:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Judgments Executed on the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       15 Hast thou marked the old way which wi...

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• Job 22:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Whereas; or, when ; or, seeing that ; or, because ; for this Hebrew particle im is oft used for chi . And so the following words may contain the reason of the joy and laughter of the innocent...

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• Job 22:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with...

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• Job 22:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 22:5 . Is not thy wickedness great? This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to i...

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• Job 22:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? The way of the wicked described It is commonly remarked, how little advantage mankind make of each other’s experience. This is surely...

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• Job 22:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 22:1-18 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, e.g. on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2),...

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• Job 22:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Warning to Avoid Further Punishments

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• Job 22:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Peter 2:6 ; 2 Peter 2:7 ; Genesis 19:24 ; Job 1:16 ; Job 15:5 ; Job 15:6 ; Job 20:18 ; Job 20:19 ; Job 20:26 ; Job 21:27 ; Job 21:28 ; Job 4:7 ; Job 8:3 ; Job 8:4 ; Luke 13:1-5 ; Lu...

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• Job 22:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Because — Because when wicked men are destroyed, they are preserved. He should have said their substance; but he changes the person, and saith, our substance; either as including himself in the mem...

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