◄ Job 15:24 ►
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Good News Translation
disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them.

New Revised Standard Version
distress and anguish terrify them; they prevail against them, like a king prepared for battle.

Contemporary English Version
They are overcome with despair, like frightened soldiers facing a fearsome king in battle.

New American Bible
A day of darkness fills him with dread; distress and anguish overpower him, like a king expecting an attack.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.

anguish

Job 6:2-4 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Psalm 119:143 Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.

Proverbs 1:27 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.

Matthew 26:37,38 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. . . .

Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

as a king

Proverbs 6:11 A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 24:34 And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
…23When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.25For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.…
Cross References
Job 15:20
The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.

Job 15:21
The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 15:23
When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 15:25
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.

Jeremiah 36:29
And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall lay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Job 15:23
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