Job 15:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קוֹל־פְּחָדִים בְּאָזְנָיו בַּשָּׁלוֹם שׁוֹדֵד יְבוֹאֶנּוּ

Transliteration

qôl-pəḥādîm bəʾoznāyw baššālôm šôdēd yəḇôʾennû

Grammar Details

• *qôl-pəḥādîm*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine plural - sound of terrors
• *bəʾoznāyw*: preposition + noun, feminine dual + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his ears
• *baššālôm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in prosperity
• *šôdēd*: qal participle, masculine singular - destroyer
• *yəḇôʾennû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - will come upon him

Word Meanings

• *qôl*: voice, sound, noise
• *paḥad*: dread, fear, terror
• *ʾōzen*: ear, hearing
• *šālôm*: peace, welfare, prosperity
• *šādad*: to destroy, devastate, spoil
• *bôʾ*: to come, enter, arrive

Referenced Verses

• Job 18:11 : 11 Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,
• Lev 26:36 : 36 And vpon them that are left of you, I will send euen a faintnes into their hearts in ye land of their enemies, & the sounde of a leafeshaken shal chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.
• 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 So Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a King, and Nabals heart was mery within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, neither lesse nor more, vntil the morning arose. 37 Then in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife tolde him those wordes, and his heart died within him, and he was like a stone. 38 And about ten dayes after, the Lord smote Nabal, that he dyed.
• 2 Kgs 7:6 : 6 For the Lord had caused the campe of the Aramites to heare a noyse of charets & a noise of horses, and a noise of a great armie, so that they sayde one to another, Beholde, the King of Israel hath hired against vs the Kings of the Hittites, and the Kings of the Egyptians to come vpon vs.
• Job 1:13-19 : 13 And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, 14 There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places, 15 And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, & hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. 18 And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, 19 And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Rev 9:11 : 11 And they haue a King ouer them, which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit, whose name in Hebrewe is Abaddon, and in Greeke he is named Apollyon, that is, destroying.
• Gen 3:9-9 : 9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said vnto him, Where art thou? 10 Who saide, I heard thy voyce in the garden, and was afraide: because I was naked, therefore I hid my selfe.
• Job 20:5-7 : 5 That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment? 6 Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes, 7 Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
• Job 20:22-25 : 22 When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him. 23 He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate. 24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through. 25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
• Job 27:20 : 20 Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.
• Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation. 19 How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed, 20 As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
• Ps 92:7 : 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
• Prov 1:26-27 : 26 I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth. 27 Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, & your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction & anguish shal come vpo you,
• Acts 12:21-23 : 21 And vpon a day appointed, Herod arayed himselfe in royall apparell, and sate on the iudgement seate, and made an oration vnto them. 22 And the people gaue a shoute, saying, The voyce of God, and not of man. 23 But immediatly the Angel of the Lorde smote him, because he gaue not glorie vnto God, so that he was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.
• 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.