Job 15:21
A sound of terrors is in his ears: during peace will the waster come over him.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is looked for by the sword.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And regarding those that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from the sword; and they shall fall with none pursuing.
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, the noise of a large army: and they said one to the other, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Job 1:13And it happened on a certain day, when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their first-born brother,
Job 20:5That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.
Job 27:20Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away.
Psalms 92:7(92:8) When the wicked spring up like herbs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed evermore.
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 →