Job 22:12-20
1599 Geneva Bible
12 Is not God on [a]high in the heaven? and behold the height of the [b]stars how high they are.
13 But thou sayest, How should God [c]know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14 The clouds hide him that he cannot see, and he walketh in the circle of heaven.
15 Hast thou marked the way of the world, [d]wherein wicked men have walked?
16 Which were [e]cut down before the time, whose foundation was as a river that overflowed:
17 Which said unto God, Depart from us, and asked what the Almighty could do for them.
18 Yet he [f]filled their houses with good things: but let the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
19 The righteous shall see them, and shall rejoice, [g]and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20 Surely [h]our substance is hid: but the fire hath devoured the remnant of [i]them.
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- Job 22:12 He accuseth Job of impiety and contempt of God, as though he would say, If thou pass not for men, yet consider the height of God’s majesty.
- Job 22:12 That so much the more by that excellent work thou mayest fear God, and reverence him.
- Job 22:13 He reproveth Job, as though he denied God’s providence and that he could not see the things that were done in this world.
- Job 22:15 How God hath punished them from the beginning?
- Job 22:16 He proveth God’s providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he taketh away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass.
- Job 22:18 He answereth to that which Job had said, Job 21:7, that the wicked have prosperity in this world: desiring that he might not be partaker of the like.
- Job 22:19 The just rejoice at the destruction of the wicked for two causes: first, because God showeth himself judge of the world and by this means continueth his honor and glory: secondly, because God showeth that he hath care over his in that he punished their enemies.
- Job 22:20 That is, the state and preservation of the godly, is hid under God’s wings.
- Job 22:20 Meaning, of the wicked.
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