Job 15 · Verse 24

Job 15:24

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:24, King James Version

Job 15:24 in other translations

BSBDistress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
WEBDistress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
ASVDistress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
YLTTerrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
DARBYDistress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
BBEHe is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
WebsterTrouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

What does Job 15:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. prevail--break upon him suddenly and terribly, as a king, &c. (Pr 6:11).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid - He shall be in continual fear of death; being now brought down by adversity, and stripped of all the goods which he had got by oppression, his life is a mark for the meanest assassin. As a king ready to the battle - The acts of his wickedness and oppression are as numerous as the troops he commands; and when he comes to meet his enemy in the field, he is not only deserted but slain by his troops. How true are the words of the poet: - Ad generum Cereris sine caede et vulnere pauci Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni. Juv. Sat., ver. 112. "For few usurpers to the shades descend By a dry death, or with a quiet end."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Job 15:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּYe.va.'a.tu.huthey terrify himH1204
צַ֣רtzaranxietyH6862
וּמְצוּקָ֑הu.me.tzu.Kahand distressH4691
תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּtit.ke.Fe.huit overpowers himH8630
כְּמֶ֤לֶךְ\׀ke.Me.lekhlike a kingH4428
עָתִ֬יד'a.TidreadyH6264
לַכִּידֽוֹר\׃la.ki.Dorfor <the> battleH3593

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 15:24

  • Proverbs 6:11

    So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  • Proverbs 24:34

    So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

  • Romans 2:9

    Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

  • Job 6:2-4

    Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • Psalms 119:143

    Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

  • Proverbs 1:27

    When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  • Isaiah 13:3

    I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

  • Matthew 26:37-38

    And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
anguish.
6:2-4; Ps 119:143; Pr 1:27; Isa 13:3; Mt 26:37,38; Ro 2:9
as a king.
Pr 6:11; 24:34

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Context

  • Job 15:23

    He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Job 15:24

    Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Job 15:25

    For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

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Job 15:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Tribulación y angustia le asombrarán, y esforzaránse contra él como un rey apercibido para la batalla.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		La détresse et l’angoisse le jettent dans l’alarme, elles l’assaillent comme un roi prêt pour la mêlée.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Angst und Bedrängnis schrecken ihn, sie überwältigen ihn wie ein König, gerüstet zum Sturm.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Terrebit eum tribulatio, et angustia vallabit eum, sicut regem qui præparatur ad prælium.