Job 22:18

Filled their houses. Perhaps the phrase is intended to be ironical: “Do you mean to say that He filled their houses with good things!” Or Eliphaz may be trying to express what seems to him the contrast between the sudden judgment that overtakes the wicked, and the long season of prosperity preceding it, which gives to them the appearance of exemption from punishment. In ch. 21 Job stressed the prosperity of the ungodly. Eliphaz stresses their sure destruction.

Counsel. The last line of v. 18 re-echoes Job’s statement in ch. 21:16. Job had used the expression after his description of the prosperous sinners. Eliphaz, having also described the wicked, among whom he apparently ranks Job, repeats the same expression in an affirmation of his piety.