Job 20:22

22 In the fulness [male'] of his sufficiency [cepheq] he shall be in straits [yatsar]: every hand [yad] of the wicked [`amel] shall come [bow'] upon him. KJV-Interlinear

22 'In the fulness of his plenty he will be cramped; The hand of everyone who suffers will come against him. NASB

There are two parallel courses that you may take in life. They are the carnal course and the spiritual course.

The carnal course includes all functions in life that exclude the spiritual side of life. In other words, this is the 'out of fellowship' pattern of life.

The spiritual course is one in which one pursues their spiritual life, while in fellowship, while simultaneously living in this carnal world.

The spiritual side of life comes complete with Gods promises. With growth and maturity, then the fears and worries of this world tend to fade away.

The carnal side of life comes with no guarantees. Regardless of ones physical or mental growth, the fears, worries, insecurities, uncertainties, anxieties, and torments of the world are always present.

And this is Zophar's point. Even though a person, a wicked person, has advanced in this life, with wealth, talent, or whatever, their happiness will never be achieved, because along with their success, worldly success, comes a target on their head.

Accumulation results in worries and greater effort in keeping those possessions. The rich become a target. And their adversary is not limited to the poor of the world, but their adversaries are the wicked of the world.

The world has no shortage of wicked people.

There will be those who will gossip against you, in order to destroy you. There will be those who will conspire against you, in order to advance themselves. There will be those who will sue you, or set you up for some kind of a fall. There will be opportunists who will take advantage of you.

The attacks of the world, from the wicked of the world, and against the wicked of the world, are numerous. Evil fighting evil becomes the game. And that is simply a jungle rule.

God often times uses the wicked to destroy the wicked.

But in our passage, the wicked have accumulated wealth or success, by earthly definitions. That success is not happiness, but instead will be accompanied with even greater challenges and hardships. And those challenges will test their ability to keep what they have.

Even if there are not so many actual attacks against the wicked person, the mere presence of threats will be enough to worry them right into the grave, so to speak.

Lack of truth results from arrogance. Arrogance results in greed and selfishness. Greed results in a wide variety of paranoia's and worries. Then there is no limit to the imagination and conspiracies.

Trouble comes from within the mind as well as from the world. So the security fences go up, the liability insurance goes up, the paranoia, anxiety, suspicion, and separation levels go up. Trust and love and contentment plummets.

Now is the time to post a prayer.