Job 15:21

King James Version 1611 (Original)

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon 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 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 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.
• Lev 26:36 : 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 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 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. 37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
• 2 Kgs 7:6 : 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 : 13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: 14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Rev 9:11 : 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.
• Gen 3:9-9 : 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
• Job 20:5-7 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
• Job 20:22-25 : 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
• Job 27:20 : 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
• Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
• Ps 92:7 : 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:
• Prov 1:26-27 : 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
• Acts 12:21-23 : 21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. 22 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.