Job 22:20

This verse is often misinterpreted as a blanket promise of material prosperity and immunity from calamity for all righteous people, overlooking that Eliphaz's simplistic retributive theology is challenged throughout Job, where the protagonist suffers despite his innocence, and God later rebukes Eliphaz for his flawed understanding, emphasizing that divine purposes transcend human formulas of reward and punishment.

In Job 22:20, Eliphaz describes the triumph of the righteous, whose possessions endure unscathed while the remnants of the wicked are utterly consumed by fire, encapsulating his conviction that God upholds justice by protecting the godly and devastating the ungodly as a divine pattern of retribution.