The Meaning of Job 20:22 Explained

Job 20:22

KJV: In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

YLT: In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

Darby: In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

ASV: In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

Discover Job 20:22

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 20:22?

MEANING: What does Job 20:22 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 20:22 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 20:22?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

In the fulness  {08675;04390:08763} of his sufficiency  he shall be in straits:  every hand  of the wicked  shall come  upon him. 

What does Job 20:22 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 20:1-29 - "the Triumphing Of The Wicked"
Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29, has vexed him, so that he speaks with impatience.
The theme of Zophar's speech is the brevity of the prosperity of the wicked. He claims that this is an acknowledged principle, Job 20:4; then proceeds to show it by many striking metaphors.
Hypocrite, Job 20:5-11,96 is "godless" in the r.v.; and in describing the prosperity and speedy destruction of such, 1713475187_7 he manifestly applies his words to Job. He refuses to pay any heed to Job's protestations of innocence. His theology was: God is righteous; he blesses and prospers the good, and destroys the wicked. Job was being destroyed; therefore Job was wicked. Thus often do we in our ignorance misunderstand God and cruelly misjudge man.
Zophar descends to more particulars. He describes the pleasure which the ungodly has in sin, Job 20:12-13; how his sin becomes his punishment, Job 20:14-22; and how terrible destruction at last visits him, Job 20:23-28, as his portion from God, Job 20:29. Though in all this Zophar was wrong in applying it to Job's case, and equally wrong in supposing that this life is the place of judgment for the wicked, yet it is important to remember that he was right in seeing a very real connection between sin and punishment. However sweet sin may be to the taste, it is sure to become bitter as the gall of asps ere long. The "pleasures of sin" are but for a season. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 20

1  Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 20:22 mean?

In his self-sufficiency will be in distress he every hand of misery will come against him
בִּמְלֹ֣אות שִׂ֭פְקוֹ יֵ֣צֶר ל֑וֹ כָּל־ יַ֖ד עָמֵ֣ל תְּבוֹאֶֽנּוּ

שִׂ֭פְקוֹ  his  self-sufficiency 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: סֶפֶק 
Sense: handclapping, mocking, mockery, scorn.
יֵ֣צֶר  will  be  in  distress 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: צָרַר  
Sense: to bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, beseige.
כָּל־  every 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
יַ֖ד  hand 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.
עָמֵ֣ל  of  misery 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: עָמֵל 
Sense: labourer, sufferer, wretched one.
תְּבוֹאֶֽנּוּ  will  come  against  him 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular, third person masculine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.

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