King James Version
Job 15:21 in the King James Version says “A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. A dreadful: Heb. A sound of fears” — study this verse from Job chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 · KJV
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. A dreadful: Heb. A sound of fears
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“A dreadful”
H6343a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
“in prosperity”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“the destroyer”
H7703properly, to be burly, i.e., (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
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