Job 20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
Cross References
Job 1:15and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 16:11God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:… Read the whole commentary →