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19 The just look on and are glad,
    and the innocent deride them:[a](A)
20 “Truly our enemies are destroyed,
    and what was left to them, fire has consumed!”
21 Settle with him and have peace.
    That way good shall come to you:

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Footnotes

  1. 22:19 Them: the wicked. Eliphaz obviously thinks that the just can be pleased by God’s punishment of the wicked. Such pleasure at the downfall of the wicked is expressed elsewhere, e.g., Ps 58:11; 63:12.