In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Ver. 22. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits] The covetous man never hath a sufficiency (but is as greedily gasping still after more, as if he were not worth a halfpenny), much less a fulness of sufficiency, a superfluity, a superabundance. Whatsoever Esau pretended in his, "I have enough, my brother," Genesis 33:9, Jacob could indeed say truly, I have enough, Genesis 33:11, for godliness only hath an autarchy, 1 Timothy 6:6. True piety hath true plenty, and is never without a well contenting sufficiency, wherein the good man is, when in the fulness of straits. See it in David, 1 Samuel 30:6, in Habakkuk, Habakkuk 3:16,17, in Paul, 2Co 6:10 Philippians 4:11, he had nothing, and yet possessed all things. But that which Zophar here drives at, is to show that the oppressor shall be ruined when at highest, and when he least looketh for it; as was Nebuchadnezzar, Haman, Belshazzar, Babylon the Great, Revelation 18:7,8. How was Alexander the Great surprised at a feast! Caesar in the senate house! many of the emperors in their own palaces! &c.
Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him] Or, of the labourer, whose wages he hath detained. Or, of the poor oppressed, whom he hath forced to labour hard for a poor living. Broughton rendereth it, Each hand of the injured and grieved shall come upon him; and so he shall have many fists about his ears, many ready to rifle him and to pull a fleece from him.