Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.

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

At the height of his success distress will come to him;
the full weight of misery will crush him.

International Standard Version

Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him.

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In the fulness
מלא מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 251

שׂפק ספק 
Cepheq 
Usage: 2

he shall be in straits
יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 8

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

of the wicked
עמל 
`amel 
Usage: 9


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

Context Readings

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

21 There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure. 22 “In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.
23 To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

Job 1:15

and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

Job 1:17

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

Job 15:29

he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

Job 16:11

God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 18:7

His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Ecclesiastes 2:18-20

I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'

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