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Job 20:22
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Sendo plena a sua abastana, estar angustiado; toda a fora da misria vir sobre ele.
Sendo plena a sua abastana, estar angustiado; toda a mo dos miserveis vir sobre ele.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the fulness: Job 15:29, Job 18:7, Psalms 39:5, Ecclesiastes 2:18-20, Revelation 18:7
every hand: Job 1:15, Job 1:17, Job 16:11, 2 Kings 24:2, Isaiah 10:6
wicked: or, troublesome, Job 3:17
Reciprocal: Job 15:21 - in prosperity Job 21:23 - in his full strength Job 33:6 - I am Haggai 1:6 - eat
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits,.... For though he may not only have a sufficient competency to live upon, but even a fulness of temporal blessings, have as much as heart can wish, or more, even good things, and plenty of them laid up for many years; yet amidst it all shall be reduced to the utmost straits and difficulties, either through fear of losing what he has, insomuch that his abundance will not suffer him to sleep in the night, nor to enjoy an hour's pleasure in the day; or being so narrow spirited, notwithstanding his fulness, that he cannot allow himself to eat of the fruit of his labours, and rejoice therein; or fearing, notwithstanding all his plenty, that he shall come to want and poverty; or rather while he is in the most flourishing circumstances, and in the height of his prosperity, he is suddenly, as Nebuchadnezzar was, dispossessed of all, and reduced to the utmost extremity, Daniel 4:31; the Targum is,
"when his measure is filled, he shall take vengeance on him:''
every hand of the wicked shall come upon him: or of the labourer, as the Targum, the hire of whose labour he has detained, or has taken away from him that which he laboured for; and so Broughton,
"the hand of the injured or grieved;''
such as he had been injurious to, and had grieved by his oppressions of them; or rather every troublesome wicked man, the hand of every thief or robber; respect seems to be had to the hand of the Sabeans and Chaldeans, that had been on Job and his substance.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In the fulness of his sufficiency - When he seems to have an abundance.
He shall be in straits - Either by the dread of calamity, or because calamity shall come suddenly upon him, and his property shall be swept away. When everything seemed to be abundant he should be reduced to want.
Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him - Margin, “or, troublesome” The meaning is, that all that the wretched or miserable endure should come suddenly upon him. Rosenmuller suggests, however, that it means that all the poor, and all who had been oppressed and robbed by him, would suddenly come upon him to recover their own property, and would scatter all that he had. The general meaning is clear, that he would be involved in misery from every quarter, or on every hand.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:22. In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits — This is a fine saying, and few of the menders of Job's text have been able to improve the version. It is literally true of every great, rich, wicked man; he has no God, and anxieties and perplexities torment him, notwithstanding he has his portion in this life.
Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. — All kinds of misery shall be his portion. Coverdale translates: Though he had plenteousnesse of every thinge, yet was he poore; and, therefore, he is but a wretch on every syde.
