21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
21 Every little sound terrifies them. Just when they think they have it made, disaster strikes.
21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him.
21 The sound of terror rings in their ears, and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:21
Commentary on Job 15:17-35
(Read Job 15:17-35)
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?