Job 15:21
A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
In Context
20'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36'And those who are left of you — I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled — flight from a sword — and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
2 Kings 7:6seeing Jehovah hath caused the camp of Aram to hear a noise of chariot and a noise of horse — a noise of great force, and they say one unto another, 'Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Egypt, to come against us.'
Job 1:13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Job 27:20Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
Psalms 92:7When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity — For their being destroyed for ever and 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 →