Job 15:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. When trouble comes, instead of trusting, and hoping, and comforting himself in God, as good men do in such cases, as 1 Samuel 30:6, he is full of torment and dread of the issue of it, and concludes it will end in his utter ruin, as he hath great reason to do. Ready to the battle; or, prepared or furnished; or, disposed with his army round about him, as this word seems to signify.