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Job 15:21
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Dreadful sounds fill his ears;when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
Terrible sounds fill their ears, and when things seem to be going well, robbers attack them.
Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
"A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears; While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].
"Sounds of terror are in his ears; While he is at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
Sounds of dread are in his ears;While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
Even in times of success, they constantly hear the threat of doom.
Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity, robbers swoop down on him.
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
Every noise scares him. His enemy will attack him when he thinks he is safe.
A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him.
Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.
Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him.
A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the one devastating shall come on him in peace.
A fearfull sounde is euer in his eares, & when it is peace, yet feareth he destruccion:
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
A dreadfull sound is in his eares; in prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
A feareful sounde is [euer] in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.
And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:
The sown of drede is euere in hise eeris, and whanne pees is, he supposith euere tresouns.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him.
The sound of terror rings in their ears, and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
Sounds of fear are in his ears. When all seems to be going well, the one who destroys will come upon him.
Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.
A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;
The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
"Sounds of terror are in his ears; While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
dreadful sound: Heb. sound of fears, Job 18:11, Genesis 3:9, Genesis 3:10, Leviticus 26:36, 2 Kings 7:6, Proverbs 1:26, Proverbs 1:27
in prosperity: Job 1:13-19, Job 20:5-7, Job 20:22-24, Leviticus 26:36, 1 Samuel 25:36-38, Psalms 73:18-20, Psalms 92:7, Acts 12:21-23, 1 Thessalonians 5:3
the destroyer: 1 Corinthians 10:10, Revelation 9:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:18 - the men Genesis 50:15 - Joseph Leviticus 26:16 - terror Judges 7:21 - all the host 1 Samuel 25:37 - his heart 1 Samuel 28:5 - he was afraid 1 Kings 1:41 - Wherefore 2 Kings 19:7 - hear a rumour 2 Chronicles 14:14 - the fear Esther 7:6 - was afraid Job 20:25 - terrors Job 21:9 - safe from fear Job 27:20 - Terrors Job 33:22 - his life Psalms 53:5 - There Psalms 73:19 - they are Proverbs 10:24 - fear Isaiah 33:14 - sinners Isaiah 37:7 - I will Jeremiah 49:5 - I will 1 John 4:18 - fear hath
Cross-References
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A dreadful sound [is] in his ears,.... Or "a voice", or "sound of fears" t, of what causes fears; and which are either imaginary; sometimes wicked men, fear when there is no cause or occasion for it; they fancy an enemy at their heels, and flee, when none pursues them; they are a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", a fear to themselves and all about them, Jeremiah 20:3; like Cain, who fancied and feared that every man that met him would slay him Genesis 4:13; such is the effect of a guilty conscience: or real; and these either extraordinary sounds, such as were made in the ears of the Syrian host, which caused them to flee, and leave their tents, and all their substance in them, 2 Kings 7:6; or ordinary, as the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war, wars and rumours which are very terrible, especially to some persons; or sounds of fears, reports of one calamity after another, which cause fears; and so may respect Job's troubles, and the dreadful sound of them in his ears, brought by one messenger of bad tidings after another: but there is a more dreadful sound than either of these, which is sometimes in the ears of wicked men; the terrors of the law of God broken by them, the menaces and curses of it, and a sound of hell and damnation, which continually rings in their ears, and fills the with horror and black despair; and so the Targum,
"the voice or sound of the fears in hell is in his ears;''
and among the rest of his fears what follows is one, and so some connect the words, that u
in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him; either God the lawgiver, whose law he has transgressed, and who is able, as to save his people, so to destroy the wicked, soul and body, in hell; and destruction from the Almighty, Job himself says, was a terror to him,
Job 31:23; or a destroying angel, such an one as went through the land of Egypt, and destroyed the firstborn, and into the camp of Israel, when they committed sin, and were destroyed of the destroyer; or some enemy, plunderer, and robber, such as the Sabeans and Chaldeans were, and to whom respect may be had; or even the devil himself, Apollyon, the destroyer of the souls of men, and who sometimes wicked men fear will come and carry them away, soul and body, to hell; or it may be death is meant, which kills and destroys all men; and wicked men are afraid that in the midst of all their peace and prosperity sudden destruction by death should come upon them, like a thief in the night, and remove them from all their enjoyments; and whether they are or no under any fearful apprehensions of this, it certainly will be their case.
t קול פחדים "sonitus timorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Bolducius; to the same sense Codurcus, Junius & Tremellius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens. u "Vastatorem invasurum eum", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A dreadful sound is in his ears - Margin, “A sound of fears.” He hears sudden, frightful sounds, and is alarmed. Or when he thinks himself safe, he is suddenly surprised. The enemy steals upon him, and in his fancied security he dies. This sentiment might be illustrated at almost any length by the mode of savage warfare in America, and by the sudden attacks which the American savage makes, in the silence of the night, on his unsuspecting foes. The Chaldee renders this, “the fear of the terrors in Gehenna are in his ears; when the righteous dwell in peace and eternal life, destruction comes upon him.”
In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him - When he supposes he is safe, and his affairs seem to be prosperous, then sudden destruction comes; see 1 Thessalonians 5:3. The history of wicked people, who have encompassed themselves with wealth, and as they supposed with every thing necessary to happiness, and who have been suddenly cut off, would furnish all the instances which would be necessary to illustrate this sentiment of Eliphaz. See an exquisitely beautiful illustration of it in Psalms 37:35-36 :
I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself like a green bay-tree.
Yet he passed away, and lo he was not;
Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
So, also, in Psalms 73:18-20 :
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places;
Thou castedst them down into destruction.
How are they brought into desolation as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
As a dream when one awaketh,
O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:21. A dreadful sound is in his ears — If he be an oppressor or tyrant, he can have no rest: he is full of suspicions that the cruelties he has exercised on others shall be one day exercised on himself; for even in his prosperity he may expect the destroyer to rush upon him.
