Christian Standard Bible
Job 27:20
20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm wind sweeps him away at night.
Job 27:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- New International Version (NIV)Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.
Context of Job 27:20
18The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon or a shelter set up by a watchman. 19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, it is gone. Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm wind sweeps him away at night. 21An east wind picks him up, and he is gone; it carries him away from his place. 22It blasts at him without mercy, while he flees desperately from its force.
Read all of Job 27Job 27:20 word by word
תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 27:20
- Job 15:21Dreadful sounds fill his ears; when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.
- Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.
- Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.
- Jonah 2:3When you threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, the current overcame me. All your breakers and your billows swept over me.
- Job 20:23When he fills his stomach, God will send his burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating.
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away?
- Exodus 12:29Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.
- 2 Kings 19:35That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning — there were all the dead bodies!
- Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
Commentaries on Job 27:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Terrors take hold on him as waters - They come upon him as an irresistible flood; and he is overwhelmed as by a tempest in the night, when darkness partly hides his danger, and deprives him of discerning the way to escape.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Terrors-take hold on him as waters - That is, as suddenly and violently as angry floods; compare the notes at Job 18:14. A tempest stealeth him away - He is suddenly cut off by the wrath of God. A tempest comes upon him as unexpectedly as a thief or robber comes at night. Death is often represented as coming upon man with the silence of a thief, or the sudden violence of a robber at midnight; see the note at Job 21:17; compare Matthew 24:42-44.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
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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
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