Job 20:22
Even when the wicked have all that they want they run into trouble; all kinds of misery will fall upon them.
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21Nothing escapes their ravenous appetites, so their happiness doesn't last long.
Cross References
Job 1:15the Sabeans attacked and took them, killing the herdsmen. Only I escaped to bring you this news.”
Job 3:17There in the grave the wicked give no more trouble, and those whose strength is gone have their rest.
Job 16:11God has handed me over to evil people; he has thrown me into their hands.
Psalms 39:5Just look at the tiny amount of days you have given me! In your eyes my whole lifetime is like nothing. Our lives here are just a breath… Selah.
Isaiah 10:6I am sending the Assyrians against a nation that has given up on its God, against a people that make me angry. I order the Assyrians to loot them, to take their possessions, and to trample them down like mud in the street.
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 →