Job 15:21
A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the 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 upon us.
Job 1:13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall 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 →