Job 22:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Yet he filled their houses with good things Yet it is true, that for a time God did prosper them, but, at last, cut them off in a tremendous manner. But the counsel of the wicked, &c. He repeats Job's words, (Job 21:16,) not without reflection: thou didst say so, but against thy own principle, that God carries himself indifferently toward good and bad; but I, who have observed God's terrible judgments upon wicked men, have much more reason to abhor their counsels.

Job 22:18

18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.