Job 15:22
He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
In Context
21The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
23When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:33While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?
Job 9:16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
Job 20:24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
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 →