Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.
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.
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.
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 He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper. 22 Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side. 23 "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him:
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Cross References
2 Kings 24:2
And the LORD sent upon him men of war out of Chaldea, out of Syria, out of the Moabites, and from the children of Ammon: and sent them into Judah to destroy it, according to the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servants the Prophets.
Job 1:15
the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee."
Job 1:17
In the mean season while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three armies, and fell upon thy camels, which they have carried away: yea, and slain thy servants with the sword, and I only am gotten away, to tell thee."
Job 3:17
There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest.
Job 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth.
Job 16:11
God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 18:7
His presumptuous goings shall be kept in, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
Ecclesiastes 2:18-20
Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me.
Isaiah 10:6
For I shall send him among those hypocritical people, among the people that have deserved my disfavour shall I send him: that he may utterly rob them, spoil them, and tread them down like the mire in the street.
Revelation 18:7
And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'