Job 15:21

They constantly hear sounds that terrify them; while they are prospering, bandits attack them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

In Context

20It is wicked people who suffer with great pain all the time that they are alive; that is what happens to those who ◄oppress/act violently toward► others.

22Wicked people surely know that they will not escape from darkness/death, because they are sure that someone is waiting to kill them with a sword.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36“As for you people who will remain alive in the countries to which your enemies will have taken you, I will cause you to become so afraid that when you hear the sound of leaves being blown by the wind, you will run away. You will run like [SIM] you are running from a man carrying a sword, and you will fall down, even though no one is pursuing you.

2 Kings 7:6What had happened was that Yahweh had caused the army of Syria to hear something that sounded like a large army marching with chariots and horses. So they said to each other, “Listen! The king of Israel has hired the kings of Egypt and the Heth people-group and their armies, and they have come to attack us!”

Job 1:13One day after that, Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother.

Job 20:5wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a ◄moment/very short time► [HYP]?

Job 27:20“Things that terrify them [PRS] strike them like a flood [SIM]; during the night a whirlwind carries them away.

Psalms 92:7They do not understand that although the number of wicked people increases like blades of grass do [SIM], and they prosper, they will be completely 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 →

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