Job 15:20
All [the] days of the wicked he is paining himself, || And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
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19To them alone was the land given, || And a stranger did not pass over into their midst:
21A fearful voice [is] in his ears, || In peace a destroyer comes to him.
Cross References
Genesis 4:14behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me.”
Job 27:13This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, || And the inheritance of terrible ones || They receive from the Mighty.
Psalms 90:12Let [us] know to number our days correctly, || And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
James 5:1Go, now, you rich! Weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on [you];
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 →