Job 8:22

22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”

Job 8:22 in Other Translations

KJV
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
ESV
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
NLT
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the home of the wicked will be destroyed.”
MSG
22 With your enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed."
CSB
22 Your enemies will be clothed with shame; the tent of the wicked will exist no longer.

Job 8:22 Meaning and Commentary

Job 8:22

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame
The Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had plundered him of his substance, when they should see him restored to his former prosperity, beyond all hope and expectation, and themselves liable to his resentment, and under the displeasure of Providence: the phrase denotes utter confusion, and such as is visible as the clothes upon a man's back; see ( Psalms 132:18 ) ;

and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to naught;
or, "shall not be" F20; shall be no more; be utterly destroyed, and no more built up again; even such dwelling places they fancied would continue for ever, and perpetuate their names to the latest posterity; but the curse of God being in them, and upon them, they come to nothing, and are no more: thus ends Bildad's speech; Job's answer to it follows.


FOOTNOTES:

F20 (wnnya) "non erit", Pagninus, Mercerus, Drusius, Michaelis.

Job 8:22 In-Context

20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”

Cross References 3

  • 1. Job 27:7; Psalms 6:10; Psalms 35:26; Psalms 44:7; Psalms 53:5; Psalms 71:13; Psalms 86:17; Psalms 109:29; Psalms 132:18; Ezekiel 7:27; Ezekiel 26:16
  • 2. S Job 4:21
  • 3. S 1 Samuel 8:3; Job 18:6,14,21; Job 21:28; Job 27:8,18; Job 34:26; Job 36:6; Job 38:13; Psalms 52:5; Proverbs 14:11
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