Job 22:20

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Job 22:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

19 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

20 ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

21 Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 4:7

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 8:4

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

Job 15:5

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:6

Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

Job 20:18

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 21:28

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

Luke 13:1

At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Luke 13:2

To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?

Luke 13:3

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Luke 13:4

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

Job 1:16

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 20:26

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Luke 17:29

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:30

It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:7

and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless