Job 15:24

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.”

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BSBPD

“Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 15:24 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
  2. Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
  3. Job 19:12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
  4. Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
  5. Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
  6. Proverbs 6:11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
  7. Proverbs 24:34and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
  8. Isaiah 13:3I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.
  9. Matthew 26:37He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
  10. Romans 2:9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

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