saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
Parallel translations
- KJV Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
- BSB ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
- NKJV ‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.’
- NASB ‘Truly our enemies are eliminated, And fire has consumed their abundance.’
- NLT They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
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Quick answer
Eliphaz quotes the righteous celebrating that their adversaries are cut off and consumed by fire. He pictures the complete destruction of the wicked.
Overview
Eliphaz continues the song of triumph over the fallen wicked, whose remnant is consumed. The certainty of God's final judgment on persistent evil is a genuine biblical theme (2 Thess 1:8-9). Yet Eliphaz uses it to push Job toward repentance by frightening him with the fate of the ungodly, still operating on the false assumption of Job's guilt.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 2 Pet 2:6–7and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
- Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
- Job 1:16While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
- Gen 19:24Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- Job 21:27–28“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
- Luke 13:1–5Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Job 4:7“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
- Job 15:5–6For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.
- Luke 17:29–30but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
- Job 20:18–19That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
- Job 8:3–4Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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