Job 22:18 - Exposition

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.