20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; …
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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…
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