Job 20:22

When they are extremely prosperous/wealthy, they will suddenly experience a lot of trouble. ◄Misery will strike them and crush them [PRS]/They will suffer very greatly►.

Translation for Translators

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

21When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over because they had greedily eaten it all; but now their prosperity will end.

23When the wicked people are filling their stomachs, God will show that he is very angry with them and punish them; the punishment that he gives them will be like [MET] rain falling on them.

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Cross References

Job 1:15a group of men from the Sheba area came and attacked us. They killed all your servants who were working in the fields and took away all the oxen and donkeys! I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you what happened.”

Job 3:17After wicked people die, they do not cause any more troubles; those who are very tired now will rest.

Job 16:11It is as though God has handed me over to ungodly people and turned me over to the wicked [DOU].

Psalms 39:5It seems that you have caused me to live only a short time; ◄my lifetime/all the time that I have lived► seems like nothing to you. The time that all we humans live is as short as [MET] a puff of wind. (Think about that!)

Isaiah 10:6Sometimes I send the armies of Assyria to attack a godless nation, to fight against other people who have caused me to be angry. I send them to capture people and to seize and take away their possessions, and to trample them like [SIM] people walk on mud 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 →

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