Job 15:21
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.
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 abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
- KJV
- A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- WEB
- A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
- ASV
- A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- DARBY
- The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
- BLB
- The voice of dread [is] in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer comes upon him.
- ÅB
- Redselstoner lyder i hans ører; midt i freden kommer ødeleggeren over ham.
- OTB
- Skremmende lyder fyller hans ører;
når han er i fred, angriper røvere ham. - B1930
- Redselstoner lyder i hans ører; midt i freden kommer ødeleggeren over ham.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Read in contextJob 1:13–19
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
Read in contextProverbs 1:26–27
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Read in contextJob 20:5–7
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Read in contextJob 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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