Job 15:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Job 15:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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.
1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Revelation 9:11
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Topics

Conscience Guilt Happiness Joy Laughter Pleasure Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-35)

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. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job’s attention, which he had litt…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. An evil conscience conceives alarm at every sudden sound, though it be in a time of peace (“prosperity”), when there is no real danger (Le 26:36; Pr 28:1; 2Ki 7:6).