Job 15:22 · KJV
“He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.”
— Job 15:22
A dreadful sound {is} in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. {A dreadful...: Heb. A sound of fears}
He wandereth abroad for bread, {saying}, Where {is it}? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15 — Context
The 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.
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Cross References
Job 20:24-25
He shall flee from the iron weapon, {and} the bow of steel shall strike him through.
Job 9:16
If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
Job 6:11
What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?
2 Kings 6:33
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil {is} of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
Isaiah 8:21-22
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath {bringeth} the punishments of the sword, that ye may know {there is} a judgment.
Matthew 27:5
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, {it is} for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.