Job 15:21
The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
20The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth them,
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army, and they said one to another: Behold the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyptians, and they are come upon us.
Job 1:13Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,
Job 20:5that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
Job 27:20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.
Psalms 92:7The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.
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 →