Job 15:21 Cross References - NSB

²¹ »Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.

⁹ But Jehovah God called to the man: »Where are you?« ¹⁰ He (Adam) answered: »I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.«

³⁶ »‘I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.

³⁶ When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king’s banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she did not tell him anything until dawn. ³⁷ In the morning after the effects of the wine wore off his wife told him what had happened. Nabal had a stroke. He could not move. ³⁸ Ten days later Jehovah made him sicker and Nabal died.

⁶ Jehovah made the Syrians hear what sounded like the advance of a large army with horses and chariots. The Syrians thought that the king of Israel had hired Hittite and Egyptian kings and their armies to attack them.

¹³ One day when Job's children were having a feast at the home of their oldest brother, ¹⁴ a messenger came running to Job. »We were plowing the fields with the cattle,« he said, »and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture. ¹⁵ »Suddenly the Sabeans attacked and stole them all. They killed every one of your servants except me. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.« ¹⁶ Before he finished speaking, another servant came and said: »Lightning struck the sheep and the shepherds and killed them all. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.« ¹⁷ Before he finished speaking, another servant came and said: »Three bands of Chaldean raiders attacked us. They took away the camels and killed all your servants except me. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.« ¹⁸ No sooner had he finished speaking, then another servant came and said: »Your children were having a feast at the home of your oldest son, ¹⁹ when a storm swept in from the desert. It blew the house down and killed them all. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.«

⁷ he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say: Where is he?

²² »Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him. ²³ »With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him. ²⁴ »Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him. ²⁵ »He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him.

¹¹ »Terrors startle him on every side and chase him at his heels.

⁵ »The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. ⁶ »Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction. ¹⁹ How are they destroyed, suddenly! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ It is like waking up from a dream, O Jehovah. When you awake you will despise everything they represent.

⁷ Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.

²⁶ »I also will laugh at your trouble. I will mock when your fear comes. ²⁷ »Trouble and distress will surround you like a whirlwind, like a great storm.

²¹ Dressed in royal apparel, Herod delivered a public address to the people on a special day. ²² The people shouted: »It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.« ²³ Immediately the angel of God killed him, because he did not give God the glory. He was eaten by worms and died.

¹⁰ Do not grumble like some of them grumbled. Venomous snakes killed them.

³ When they say, »Peace and security!« then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

¹¹ The angel of the bottomless pit was their king. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.