Job 15:24

Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

23A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it]? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;

25Because he had stretched out—against GOD—his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

Job 19:12Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;

Proverbs 1:27When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.

Proverbs 24:34So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.

Matthew 26:37And, taking with him, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved and to be in great distress.

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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