Job 15:21 · KJV
“A dreadful sound {is} in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. {A dreadful...: Heb. A sound of fears}”
— Job 15:21
The wicked man travaileth with pain all {his} days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15 — Context
Unto 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. {A dreadful...: Heb. A sound of fears}
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.
Cross References
Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. {drive: Heb. scatter}
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. {shaken: Heb. driven}
1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Job 20:22-25
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. {wicked: or, troublesome}
Proverbs 1:26-27
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.