Job 15:24
Distress and anguish terrify him: they assail him with might, as a king prepared for the battle.
Leeser Tanakh
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In Context
25Because he had stretched out against God his hand, and strengthened himself against the Almighty;
Cross References
Job 6:2Oh that my vexation could be truly weighed, and my calamity; oh that men might lift it up in the balances at once!
Job 19:12Altogether come on his troops, and make level against me their way, and encamp round about my tent.
Proverbs 1:27When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
Proverbs 24:34But then will thy poverty come like a rover; and thy wants as a man armed with a shield.
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 →