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Job 22:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Yet he filled their houses with good things. The "he" is emphatic ( הוּא). Translate, Yet it was he that filled their houses with good things; and comp. Job 21:16, where the prosperity of the wicked is said not to have proceeded from themselves.

But the counsel of the wicked is far from me; or, but let the counsel of the wicked be far from me. Again, Job's words in Job 21:16 are echoed, perhaps that Eliphaz may show himself to be at least as pious as Job.

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