SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:20
¿Por ventura fue cortada nuestra sustancia, habiendo consumido el fuego el resto de ellos?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 22:20
Verse 20. Whereas our substance is not cut down ] We, who fear the Lord, still continue in health and peace; whereas they who have departed from him are destroyed even to their very remnant. Mr. Good thinks that wnmyq kimanu, which we translate our substance, is the same as the Arabic (Arabic) our people or tribe; and hence he translates the clause thus: "For our tribe is not cut off; while even the remnant of these a conflagration consumed." The reference here is supposed to be to the destruction of the men of Sodom and Gomorrah. A judgment by a flood took off the world of the ungodly in the days of Noah. Their remnant, those who lived in the same ungodly way, were taken off by a judgment of fire, in the days of Lot. Eliphaz introduces these two examples in order to terrify Job into a compliance with the exhortation which immediately follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-20 - Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we ar not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz doe here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.
Original Hebrew
אם 518 לא 3808 נכחד 3582 קימנו 7009 ויתרם 3499 אכלה 398 אשׁ׃ 784
