Job 22:20

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

Cross-references

Job 20:18 Parallel

Job 20:18 describes the wicked losing their wealth, directly paralleling fire devouring their wealth in Job 22:20.

Job 20:26 Parallel

Job 20:26 also describes fire devouring the wicked — a parallel image of divine judgment.

Job 21:28 Contrast

Job 21:28 quotes the friends' claim that the wicked's tent is destroyed — which Job then refutes, contrasting with Eliphaz's certainty.

Job 1:16 Allusion

Job 1:16 records literal fire from heaven destroying Job's flocks — a possible background for Eliphaz's metaphor.

Job 4:7 Parallel

Job 4:7 states the innocent never perish, while Job 22:20 says the wicked are destroyed — consistent with Eliphaz's theology.

Genesis 19:24 records God raining fire on Sodom — the archetypal judgment by fire.