Job 15:24

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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In The King James Version

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

In Context

23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

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Cross References

Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 19:12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

Proverbs 1:27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

Proverbs 24:34so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

Matthew 26:37He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

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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