Parallel Verses

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].

New American Standard Bible

“In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped;
The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him.

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

At the height of his success distress will come to him;
the full weight of misery will crush him.

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.

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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In the fulness
מלא מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 251

שׂפק ספק 
Cepheq 
Usage: 2

he shall be in straits
יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 8

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

of the wicked
עמל 
`amel 
Usage: 9


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

Context Readings

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

21
“There is nothing left of what he devoured;
Therefore his prosperity does not endure.
22 
“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].
23
“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it upon him while he is eating.



Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

The Lord sent marauding bands of Chaldeans, Arameans (Syrians), Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim. And He sent them against Judah to destroy it, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke through His servants the prophets.

Job 1:15

and the Sabeans attacked and swooped down on them and took away the animals. They also 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, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 3:17


“There [in death] the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.

Job 15:29


He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend to the earth nor his possessions be extended on the earth.

Job 16:11


“God hands me over to criminals
And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.

Job 18:7


“The vigorous stride will be shortened,
And his own counsel and the scheme [in which he trusted] will bring his downfall.

Psalm 39:5


“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-20

So I hated all the fruit (gain) of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will succeed me.

Isaiah 10:6


I send Assyria against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My wrath
To take the spoil and to seize the plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Revelation 18:7

To the degree that she glorified herself and reveled and gloated in her sensuality [living deliciously and luxuriously], to that same degree impose on her torment and anguish, and mourning and grief; for in her heart she boasts, ‘I sit as a queen [on a throne] and I am not a widow, and will never, ever see mourning or experience grief.’

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