Job 20:22
Good News Translation
At the height of their success all the weight of misery will crush them.

New Revised Standard Version
In full sufficiency they will be in distress; all the force of misery will come upon them.

Contemporary English Version
Once they have everything, distress and despair will strike them down,

New American Bible
When he has more than enough, distress shall be his, every sort of trouble shall come upon him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

the fulness

Job 15:29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.

Job 18:7 The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-20 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

Revelation 18:7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.

every hand

Job 1:15,17 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. . . .

Job 16:11 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

2 Kings 24:2 And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets.

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

wicked.

Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods: 22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.…
Cross References
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 20:23
May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

Job 20:21
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