Job 15:24
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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

King James 2000 Bible
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

New Heart English Bible
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They 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.

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

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

A Faithful Version
Trouble and anguish shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

Darby Bible Translation
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.

English Revised Version
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Sorow and carefulnesse make him afrayed, & copasse him rounde aboute, like as it were a kinge with his hoost redy to the battayll.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Adversity and distress terrify him, "" They prevail over him as a king ready for a boaster.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Tribulation will terrify him, and anguish will prevail over him, like a king who is being prepared to go to battle.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Suffering will terrify him and adversity will overtake him as a King who is prepared for battle

Lamsa Bible
Trouble and anguish shall overtake him, like a king ready for the battle,

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

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
















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