Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:

New American Standard Bible

“Distress and anguish terrify him,
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

Trouble and distress terrify him,
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.

Amplified


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

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צר צר 
Tsar 
Usage: 109

and anguish
מצקה מצוּקה 
M@tsuwqah 
Usage: 7

בּעת 
Ba`ath 
Usage: 16

תּקף 
Taqaph 
Usage: 3

against him, as a king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

עתיד 
`athiyd 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

23 A wanderer, he, for bread, saying Where is it ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness; 24 Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset: 25 Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;



Cross References

Job 6:2-4

Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin - into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

Psalm 119:143

Straitness and distress, have befallen me, Thy commandments, are my dear delights.

Proverbs 1:27

When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.

Proverbs 6:11

So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.

Isaiah 13:3

I myself, have given charge to my hallowed ones, - Yea I have called My heroes in showing mine anger, My proudly exulting ones. The noise of a multitude in the mountains A resemblance of many people, -

Matthew 26:37-38

And, taking with him, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved and to be in great distress.

Romans 2:9

tribulation and anguish - against every soul of man who worketh out what is base, both of Jew first and of Greek, -

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