Job 15:24

Job 15:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
• New International Version (NIV)Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
• English Standard Version (ESV)distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle.

Context of Job 15:24

22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword; 23he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, 25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty, 26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

Job 15:24 word by word

יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ צַ֣ר וּמְצוּקָ֑ה תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּ כְּמֶ֤לֶךְ׀ עָתִ֬יד לַכִּידֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Troubleצַרtsar tsâr · distressH6862
• and anguishמְצוּקָהmetsûqâh metsûqâh · distressH4691
• shall make him afraidבָּעַתbâ‛ath · to terrifyH1204
• they shall prevailתָּקֵףtâqaph · to prevailH8630
• against him, as a kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• readyעָתִיד‛âthîyd · readyH6264
• to the battleכִּידוֹרkîydôr · battleH3593

Cross-references for Job 15:24

• Job 6:2“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!
• Psalms 119:143Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.
• Proverbs 1:27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.
• Isaiah 13:3I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.
• Matthew 26:37He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.
• Romans 2:9There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,
• Proverbs 6:11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
• Proverbs 24:34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

Commentaries on Job 15:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid - He shall be in continual fear of death; being now brought down by adversity, and stripped of all the goods which he had got by oppression, his life is a mark for the meanest assassin. As a king ready to the battle - The acts of his wickedness and oppression are as numerous as the troops he commands; and when he comes to meet his enemy in the field, he is not only deserted but slain by his troops. How true are…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24As a king ready to the battle - Fully prepared for a battle; whom it would be vain to attempt to resist. So mighty would be the combined forces of trouble and anguish against him, that it would be vain to attempt to oppose them.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-35Verses 17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-35Evil people experience everything that happened to Job (see 1:16–19): Attacks by thieves (15:21). Loss of possessions (15:29). Collapse of houses (15:28). Fire (15:30, 34).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. prevail--break upon him suddenly and terribly, as a king, &c. (Pr 6:11).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 15:24

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Conscience
• Cowardice
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Anguish
• Eliphaz (2)
• Tribulation
• Eliphaz

Commentaries on Job 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary