Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
Interlinear
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Yatsar
Yad
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 didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 24:2
Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed 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. 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 ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 18:7
The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-20
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'