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Job 15:21 KJV
Job · chapter 15 · verse 21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.Job 15:21 · King James Version
Job 15:21 in context
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prosperityshâlôwmsafeH7965 →
- destroyershâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- dreadfulpachada alarmH6343 →
- soundqôwla voice or soundH6963 →
- earsʼôzenbroadnessH241 →
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Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-35