Job 20:22
When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
21Nothing escaped his devouring greed,—For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:
Cross References
Job 1:15when the Sabeans swooped down, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword,—and escaped am, only I alone, too tell thee.
Job 3:17There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:
Job 16:11GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.
Psalms 39:5Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee,—Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. [Selah.]
Isaiah 10:6Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,—To capture spoil And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.
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 →