Job 22:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 22:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:16
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Jeremiah 12:2
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Psalms 17:14
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Blessing Depravity of Man God Guidance Guilt Lord

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-20)

Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world; as if he had said, “Thy condition is bad now, but, unless thou repent, it will be worse, as theirs was—theirs who were over…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. “Yet” you say (see on Job 21:16) 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,” &c. Eliphaz sarcastically quotes in continuation Job’s words (Job 21:16). Yet, after uttering this godless sentiment, thou dost hypocritically add, “May the counsel,” &c.