Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 15:21 in other translations
| BSB | Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. |
| DARBY | The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him. |
| BBE | A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him: |
| Webster | A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. |
What does Job 15:21 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…
Job 15:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:21
- Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- 1 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.
- Leviticus 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.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
- Job 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: And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. …
- Proverbs 1:26-27
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Job 20:5-7
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Job 20:22-25
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
- Revelation 9:11
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
- 1 Samuel 25:36-38
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
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Context
- Job 15:20
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estruendos espantosos hay en sus oídos; en la paz le vendrá quien lo asuele. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La voix des choses effrayantes est dans ses oreilles; au milieu de la prospérité, le dévastateur arrive sur lui; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Stimme von Schrecknissen ist in seinen Ohren, im Frieden kommt der Verwüster über ihn; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sonitus terroris semper in auribus illius: et cum pax sit, ille semper insidias suspicatur. |