Job 15:21
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
22He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as for those who are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as a man flees from the sword, and they shall fall w
2 Kings 7:6For LORD had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army. And they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and
Job 1:13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?
Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35
17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →