Job 15:21
The sound of terror is always in his ears; and when there is peace, he always suspects treason.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
20The impious is arrogant for all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And whoever of you will remain, I will send terror into their hearts in the regions of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf will terrify them, and so they will flee, as if from the sword. They will fall, though no one pursues.
2 Kings 7:6For indeed, the Lord had caused them to hear, in the camp of Syria, the sound of chariots and horses, and a very numerous army. And they said one to another: “Behold, the king of Israel has paid wages to the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians against us. And they will overwhelm us.”
Job 1:13So, on a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their first-born brother,
Job 20:5that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
Job 27:20Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.
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 →