Job 20:22

In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

Young's Literal Translation

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 doth not stay.

23It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

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Cross References

Job 1:15and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped — only I alone — to declare [it] to thee.'

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

Job 16:11God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

Psalms 39:5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.

Isaiah 10:6Against a profane nation I send him, 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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