Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Holman Bible
the full weight of misery
International Standard Version
Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him.
American Standard Version
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.
Amplified
“In the fullness of his excess (great abundance) he will be in trouble;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him [he is miserable on every side].
Bible in Basic English
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
Darby Translation
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
Julia Smith Translation
In the fulness of his abundance it shall be pressed to him: every laboring hand shall come to him.
King James 2000
In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the fullness of his excess {he will be in distress}; all of misery's power will come [upon] him.
Modern King James verseion
In the fullness of his plenty he shall be in trouble; every wretched one shall come on him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.
NET Bible
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.
New Heart English Bible
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
The Emphasized Bible
When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.
Webster
In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
World English Bible
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
Youngs Literal Translation
In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
21 There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 24:2
And LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the sons of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of LORD, which he spoke by his
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped
Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 16:11
God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 18:7
The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-20
And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Revelation 18:7
In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.