Job 20:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּמְלֹ֣אות שִׂ֭פְקוֹ יֵ֣צֶר ל֑וֹ כָּל־יַ֖ד עָמֵ֣ל תְּבוֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

Transliteration

bi- mĕlōʾwt śipqô yēṣer lô kāl- yad ʿāmēl tĕbôʾennû

Grammar Details

*bi-*: preposition - in
*mĕlōʾwt*: infinitive construct - fullness
*śipqô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sufficiency
*yēṣer*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it is distressed/narrow
*lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him
*kāl-*: adjective, masculine singular construct - all/every
*yad*: noun, feminine singular construct - hand
*ʿāmēl*: adjective, masculine singular - toiling/laboring
*tĕbôʾennû*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it comes to him

Word Meanings

*mĕlōʾwt*: fullness/abundance/being full
*śipqô*: his sufficiency/his abundance/his satisfaction
*yēṣer*: is distressed/is in straits/is narrow
*yad*: hand/power
*ʿāmēl*: toiling/laboring/suffering/miserable
*tĕbôʾennû*: comes to him/arrives at him/befalls him

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 24:2 : 2 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
Job 1:15 : 15 and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:17 : 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 3:17 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
Job 15:29 : 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 16:11 : 11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 18:7 : 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Eccl 2:18-20 : 18 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.
Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Rev 18:7 : 7 How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

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