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18 Yet he had filled their houses with good things.
    The designs of the wicked are far from me![a](A)
19 The just look on and are glad,
    and the innocent deride them:[b](B)
20 “Truly our enemies are destroyed,
    and what was left to them, fire has consumed!”

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Footnotes

  1. 22:18 The second part of the verse repeats 21:16.
  2. 22:19 Them: the wicked. Eliphaz obviously thinks that the just can be pleased by God’s punishment of the wicked. Such pleasure at the downfall of the wicked is expressed elsewhere, e.g., Ps 58:11; 63:12.