Job 15:20
'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
21A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
Cross References
Genesis 4:14lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been — every one finding me doth slay me.'
Job 27:13This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
Psalms 90:12To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Luke 12:19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
James 5:1Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon [you];
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 →