Job 15:24
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
Cross References
Job 6:2O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 19:12His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Proverbs 1:27when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Proverbs 24:34so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
Matthew 26:37And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed.
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 →