Job 20:22

"There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure."

Key Reflection

In Job 20:22, this verse suggests that despite his greed and voracious nature, the wicked person consumes everything but leaves no lasting benefit behind, indicating that temporary success through sinful means is ultimately fleeting and does not lead to genuine prosperity or satisfaction. This highlights the transient nature of such prosperity, which lacks true value in the eyes of God.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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.

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