Job 22:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

"Yet" you say (Job 21:16, see note) that it is "He who filled their houses with good" - "their" 'good is not in their hand,' but comes from God.

But the counsel ... is ... - rather, may the counsel be, etc. Eliphaz sarcastically quotes in continuation Job's words (Job 21:16). Yet, after uttering this godless sentiment, thou dost hypocritically add, "May the counsel," etc. Such a formula of aversion against the wicked becomes not you, a wicked man yourself, but me.

Job 22:18

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