New International Version

Job 15:21-27 New International Version (NIV)

21. Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

22. He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

23. He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

24. Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

25. because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

26. defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

27. “Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,