Job 22:18 (BSB)
But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Commentary on Job 22:18
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 22:15-20: 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...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 22:18: The righteous see it, and are glad,.... Not the counsel of the wicked, nor their outward prosperity, but their ruin and destruction, which is sure and certain; though it may sometimes seem to linger, it is often public and visible to the view of every man, being made public examples, see Psa 91:8; and which is matter of joy and gladness to truly good and...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 22:18: "Yet" you say (see on Job 21:16) that it is "He who filled their houses with good"--"their good is not in their hand," but comes from God. but the counsel . . . is--rather, "may the counsel be," &c. Eliphaz sarcastically quotes in continuation Job's words (Job 21:16). Yet, after uttering this godless sentiment, thou dost hypocritically add, "May the counsel," &c.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 22:18: Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. (m) He answers to that which Job had said, that the wicked have prosperity in this world; desiring that he might not be a partaker of the like.