Job 20:22
In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
Cross References
Job 1:15the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in 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 →