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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 22:20 - 22:20
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The triumphant speech of the pious. If “substance” be retained, translate, rather as the Septuagint, “Has not their substance been taken away, and ...?” But the Hebrew is rather, “Truly our adversary is cut down” [Gesenius]. The same opposition exists between the godly and ungodly seed as between the unfallen and restored Adam and Satan (adversary); this forms the groundwork of the book (Job 1:1-2:13; Gen 3:15).
remnant - all that “is left” of the sinner; repeated from Job 20:26, which makes Umbreit’s rendering “glory” (Margin), “excellency,” less probable.
fire - alluding to Job (Job 1:16; Job 15:34; Job 18:15). First is mentioned destruction by water (Job 22:16); here, by fire (2Pe 3:5-7).