Job 20:22
In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him: every hand of [those he] troubled will come against him.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
21Nothing was spared from his craving to eat: therefore shall his wealth not prosper.
Cross References
Job 1:15When the Sabeans made an incursion, and took them away, and the young men they slew with the edge of the sword; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.
Job 3:17There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;
Job 16:11God hath surrendered me to the unjust, and cast me down into the hands of the wicked.
Psalms 39:5(39:6) Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah.
Isaiah 10:6Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, and against the people of my fury will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to carry off the prey, and to render them trodden 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 →