Job 15:21
A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
22He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes,—So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing;
2 Kings 7:6Now, the Lord, had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, noise of horses, a noise of a great host,—and they said one to another—Lo! the king of Israel hath hired against us—the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come against us.
Job 1:13And there came a certain day,—when his sons and his daughters were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother.
Job 20:5That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?
Job 27:20There shall reach him—like waters—terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;
Psalms 92:7When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.
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 →