Job 15:21
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
Job 1:13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
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 →