Job 22:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’”
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“‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 22:20 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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!”
- Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- 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 20:18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.
- Job 20:26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
- Job 20:29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Luke 13:1At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- 2 Peter 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
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