Bible Strands
Job 15:21
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses Job within a discourse detailing the inescapable ruin awaiting the wicked.
The words — שׁוֹדֵד (sho.Ded) translates to a destroyer, and בַּשָּׁלוֹם (ba./sha.Lom) means in peace or prosperity, describing the sudden invasion of safety.
The thread — This pattern of sudden ruin amid perceived safety echoes in Job 18:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, and Leviticus 26:36.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that external security offers no protection against appointed judgment, requiring the reader to abandon reliance on circumstantial stability.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Cross-references
- Job 18:11 Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- Leviticus 26:36 As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
- Job 1:13 One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 20:5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Job 20:22 In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
- Job 27:20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
- Psalms 92:7 that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- Proverbs 1:26 in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,