Job 22:20

In 11 translations

BSB

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

KJV

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.substance: or, estatethe remnant…: or, their excellency

WEB

saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’

ASV

Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

LSV

Surely our substance has not been cut off, || And fire has consumed their excellence.

YLT

'Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'

DBY

Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?

DRC

Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?

GNV

Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

JPS

'Surely their substance is cut off, and their abundance the fire hath consumed.'

LXXE

Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their property.

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WLC

אִם־לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ׃

LXX-Br

Εἰ μὴ ἠφανίσθη ἡ ὑπόστασις αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ κατάλειμμα αὐτῶν καταφάγεται πῦρ.

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• Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
• Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
• Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
• 2 Peter 2:6–7if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly; and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the…
• Job 20:18–19He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading. For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
• Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
• Luke 13:1–5At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other…
• Job 8:3–4Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
• Luke 17:29–30But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
• Job 21:27–28Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me. For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
• Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
• Job 15:5–6For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

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