Job 15:21
A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
22He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And vpon them that are left of you, I will send euen a faintnes into their hearts in ye land of their enemies, and the sounde of a leafeshaken shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had caused the campe of the Aramites to heare a noyse of charets and a noise of horses, and a noise of a great armie, so that they sayde one to another, Beholde, the King of Israel hath hired against vs the Kings of the Hittites, and the Kings of the Egyptians to come vpon vs.
Job 1:13And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
Job 20:5That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
Job 27:20Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.
Psalms 92:7(When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
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 →