King James Version
Job 22:18 in the King James Version says “Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.” — study this verse from Job chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.”
Job 22:18 · KJV
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: whose: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? for: or, to
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. substance: or, estate the remnant: or, their excellency
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“Yet he filled”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“their houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“with good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“is far”
H7368to widen (in any direction), i.e., (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
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