Job 27:21

Job 27:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
• New International Version (NIV)The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.

Context of Job 27:21

19He lies down rich, but never will again; He opens his eyes, and it is gone. 20Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood; A windstorm steals him away in the night. The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place. 22For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion; He flees in haste from its power. 23People will clap their hands at him [to mock and ridicule him] And hiss him out of his place.

Job 27:21 word by word

יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ קָדִ֣ים וְיֵלַ֑ךְ וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The eastקָדִיםqâdîym qâdim · eastH6921
• wind carrieth him awayנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: bearH5375
• and he departethיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• and as a storm hurlethשָׂעַרώâ‛ar · to stormH8175
• him out of his placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725

Cross-references for Job 27:21

• Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them like an east wind Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their disaster [says the Lord].’ ”
• Hosea 13:15For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes), An east wind (Assyria) will come, The breath of the Lord rising from the desert; And Ephraim’s spring will become dry And his fountain will be dried up. Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.
• Exodus 9:23Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning (fireballs) ran down to the earth and along the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
• Psalms 11:6Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire; Fire and brimstone and a dreadful scorching wind will be the portion of their cup [of doom].
• Psalms 58:9Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel], He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
• Psalms 83:15So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
• Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods and torrents came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great and complete was its fall.”

Commentaries on Job 27:21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21The east wind carrieth him away - Such as is called by Mr. Good, a levanter, the euroclydon, the eastern storm of Acts 27:14.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21The east wind carrieth him away - He is swept off as by the violence of a tempest. Severe storms are represented in this book as coming from the East; compare the notes at Job 15:2. The ancients believed that people might be carried away by a tempest or whirlwind; compare Isaiah 41:16; see also Homer, Odyssey xx. 63ff: “Snatch me, ye whirlwinds far from human race, Test through the void illimitable space; Or if dismounted from the rapid cloud, Me with his…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-23Verses 11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2311-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer Zophar's opinion, as stated by himself? The…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 27:21

• Death
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena
• Oppression
• Rich, the
• Wicked (People)
• Wind

In the dictionaries

• East wind
• Deceit
• Heap
• Winds
• Job, Book of
• Wind

Commentaries on Job 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings