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Job 15:21

O sonido dos horrores est nos seus ouvidos; na prosperidade lhe sobrevm o assolador.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Conscience;   Happiness;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Conscience;   Guilty Conscience;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Opposition;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fear, Unholy;   Happiness of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blood Accusation;   Peace;  

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
O sonido dos horrores est nos seus ouvidos; at na paz lhe sobrevm o assolador.
Almeida Revista e Corrigida
O sonido dos horrores est nos seus ouvidos; at na paz lhe sobrevm o assolador.

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

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.


 
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