Job 22:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

Job 22:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 107:42
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms 52:6
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Psalms 97:8
Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Revelation 18:20
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

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. 19)

19. Triumph of the pious at the fall of the recent followers of the antediluvian sinners. While in the act of denying that God can do them any good or harm, they are cut off by Him. Eliphaz hereby justifies himself and the friends for their conduct to Job: not derision of the wretched, but joy at the vindication of God’s ways (Psa 107:42; Re 15:3; 16:7; 19:1, 2).