Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Distress and anxiety terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for battle.
New American Standard Bible
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
King James Version
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Holman Bible
overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.
International Standard Version
Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.
A Conservative Version
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They 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.
Bible in Basic English
He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
Darby Translation
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
Julia Smith Translation
Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war.
King James 2000
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.
Modern King James verseion
Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.
NET Bible
Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
New Heart English Bible
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
The Emphasized Bible
Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
Themes
Afflictions of the The Wicked » Produce slavish fear
unholy Fear » Described as » Overwhelming
unholy Fear » Seizes the wicked
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
23
“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.
“Distress and anxiety terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for battle.
“Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And behaves arrogantly against
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 6:2-4
“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!
Psalm 119:143
Trouble and anguish have found me,
Yet Your commandments are my delight and my joy.
Proverbs 1:27
When your dread and panic come like a storm,
And your disaster comes like a whirlwind,
When anxiety and distress come upon you [as retribution].
Proverbs 6:11
So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]
And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].
Proverbs 24:34
Then your poverty will come as a robber,
And your want like an armed man.
Isaiah 13:3
I [the Lord] have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My great warriors,
My proudly exulting ones [the Medes and the Persians who triumph for My honor]—
To execute My anger.
Matthew 26:37-38
And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.
Romans 2:9
There will be tribulation and anguish [torturing confinement] for every human soul who does [or permits] evil, to the Jew first and also to the Greek,