Job 15:24
New International Version
Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

New Living Translation
That dark day terrifies them. They live in distress and anguish, like a king preparing for battle.

English Standard Version
distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

Berean Standard Bible
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

King James Bible
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

New King James Version
Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle.

New American Standard Bible
“Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

NASB 1995
“Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

NASB 1977
“Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

Legacy Standard Bible
Distress and anguish terrify him; They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

Amplified Bible
“Distress and anxiety terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for battle.

Christian Standard Bible
Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

American Standard Version
Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Suffering will terrify him and adversity will overtake him as a King who is prepared for battle

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

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

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

English Revised Version
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The day of darkness troubles him. Distress and anguish terrify him like a king ready for battle.

Good News Translation
disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them.

International Standard Version
Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Distress and anguish overwhelm him; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Literal Standard Version
Adversity and distress terrify him, | They prevail over him as a king ready for a boaster.

Majority Standard Bible
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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

NET Bible
Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

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

New Heart English Bible
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

World English Bible
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Young's Literal Translation
Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

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Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand. 24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack. 25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,…

Cross References
Job 15:20
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

Job 15:21
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

Job 15:23
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:25
For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Jeremiah 36:29
You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?'


Treasury of Scripture

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

anguish

Job 6:2-4
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! …

Psalm 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

as a king

Proverbs 6:11
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Proverbs 24:34
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

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Job 15
1. Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17. He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men














(24) As a king ready to the battle.--Or, They prevail against him like a king: he is destined to be like a ball (comp. Isaiah 22:18), the tennis-ball of calamity.

Verse 24. - Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. Eliphaz seems covertly to allude to Job's misfortunes, which came against him with such force, and crushed him as a mighty king crushes his foes in battle.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Distress
צַ֣ר (ṣar)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent

and anguish
וּמְצוּקָ֑ה (ū·mə·ṣū·qāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4691: Narrowness, trouble

terrify him,
יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ (yə·ḇa·‘ă·ṯu·hū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1204: To fall upon, startle, terrify

overwhelming him
תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּ (tiṯ·qə·p̄ê·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8630: To prevail over, overpower

like a king
כְּמֶ֤לֶךְ ׀ (kə·me·leḵ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

poised
עָתִ֬יד (‘ā·ṯîḏ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6264: Prepared, skilful, treasure

to attack.
לַכִּידֽוֹר׃ (lak·kî·ḏō·wr)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3593: Tumult


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