Parallel Verses
King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
New American Standard Bible
Holman Bible
when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.
International Standard Version
Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.
A Conservative Version
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
American Standard Version
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Amplified
“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].
Bible in Basic English
A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
Darby Translation
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
Julia Smith Translation
The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him.
King James 2000
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Sounds of terror [are] in his ears; in prosperity [the] destroyer will come [against] him.
Modern King James verseion
A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction.
NET Bible
Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
New Heart English Bible
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
The Emphasized Bible
A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;
Webster
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
World English Bible
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Youngs Literal Translation
A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
Themes
unholy Fear » Described as » Overwhelming
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Names
Cross References
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.
Genesis 3:9-10
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
1 Samuel 25:36-38
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Job 1:13-19
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 20:5-7
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job 20:22-25
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Psalm 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:
Proverbs 1:26-27
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Acts 12:21-23
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
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.