Job 20:22

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

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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 was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.

23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

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Cross References

Job 1:15and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Job 16:11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them 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 →

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