Job 22:20
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 22:20 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 22:20 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. substance: or, estate the remnant...:..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 22:20 — KJV
“Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. substance: or, estate the remnant...: or, their excellency”
— Job 22:20 (KJV)
Job 22:20 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 22:20
“But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. their images: Heb. their statues, or, pillars”
Shares key themes with Job 22:20: cut, down, fire
“And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.”
Shares key themes with Job 22:20: cut, down, fire
“And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.”
Shares key themes with Job 22:20: down, remnant, fire
“It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.”
Shares key themes with Job 22:20: cut, down, fire
“They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. destroy: Heb. cut down”
Shares key themes with Job 22:20: cut, down, fire
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