Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

In the fulness of his abundance it shall be pressed to him: every laboring hand shall come to him.

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.

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 Nothing was left to his food; for this his good shall not be stable. 22 In the fulness of his abundance it shall be pressed to him: every laboring hand shall come to him. 23 He will be for filling his belly, he will send upon him the burning of his anger, and will rain upon him in his eating.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

And Jehovah will send against him troops of Chaldeans and troops of Aram, and troops of Moab, and troops of the sons of Ammon, and he will send them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servants the prophets.

Job 1:15

And Sheba will fall and take them; they struck the young men by the month of the sword; and only shall escape, I alone, to announce to thee..

Job 1:17

This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The Chaldeans set three heads, and they invaded upon the camels, and they will take them, and they struck the young men with the mouth of the sword; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee.

Job 3:17

There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest.

Job 15:29

He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise up; their possession shall not extend upon the earth.

Job 16:11

God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straightened, and his counsel shall cast him down.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-20

And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a polluted nation will I send him, and upon a people of my outpouring will I command him to spoil a spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to set them a treading down as the clay of the streets.

Revelation 18:7

As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.

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