Job 22:21

"saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’"

Key Reflection

In Job 22:21, this verse expresses a sense of vindication and triumph over adversaries, suggesting that the enemies who oppose the righteous will be completely destroyed and their remnants will vanish like fire-consuming them. This reflects a divine judgment where evil is ultimately defeated, affirming the ultimate justice and support of God for his faithful servants.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Acquaint now thyself with him -Margin, that is, “with God.” Eliphaz takes it for granted now, that Job was a sinner wholly unreconciled to God, and unacquainted with him. This fact, he supposes, was the source of all his calamities. As long as he remained thus unreconciled to God, he must be miserable. He proceeds, therefore, in a most beautiful manner, to exhort him to be at peace with God, and portrays the benefits which would result from such a reconciliation. There are few passages in the Bible of more exquisite beauty than this, and nothing could be sounder advice, on the supposition that Job was, as he supposed, a stranger to God.

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