Job 20:22

In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets him.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

In Context

21There is not a remnant to his food, || Therefore his good does not stay.

23It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, || He sends forth against him || The fierceness of His anger, || Indeed, He rains on him in his eating.

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Cross References

Job 1:15and Sheba falls, and takes them, and they have struck the young men by the mouth of the sword, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you.”

Job 3:17There the wicked have ceased troubling, || And there the wearied rest in power.

Job 16:11God shuts me up to the perverse, || And turns me over to the hands of the wicked.

Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.

Isaiah 10:6I send him against a profane nation, || And concerning a people of My wrath || I charge him, || To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, || And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

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 →

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