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Job 27:20
20Troubles come to them like a flood of water, and they are very afraid. A storm comes in the night to carry them away.
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 houses that wicked people build are not strong. They are as weak as a spider's web, or a shepherd's hut, 19Their riches quickly disappear. They are rich when they go to sleep, but poor when they wake up. Troubles come to them like a flood of water, and they are very afraid. A storm comes in the night to carry them away. 21The east wind picks them up and takes then far away. It removes them from their homes. 22It is a strong wind that hits wicked people and it never stops. It continues to beat them as they try to escape.
Read all of Job 27Job 27:20 word by word
תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:20
- Job 15:21He will hear things that frighten him. He may think that he is safe, but robbers will attack him.
- Job 18:11Everywhere a wicked person goes, things frighten him. He cannot escape from them.
- Job 22:16Those people died before they should have done. A great flood of water took them away. They had no safe place to stand.
- Psalms 18:4Death was near enough to catch me! Danger was like a river that poured over me.
- Psalms 42:7I hear your waterfalls make a noise like thunder. It seems like all that water is pouring over me and it knocks me down to the ground.
- Psalms 69:14Save me out of the mud and do not let me sink down into it. Rescue me from the people that hate me. Save me from the deep water.
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep water, and I fell into the middle of the sea. The deep water covered me. You sent big waves to roll over me.
- Job 20:23When he is filling himself with good food, God will punish him. God will be very angry with him. God will attack the wicked person so that he suffers.
- Job 21:18He does not blow them away, like the wind blows dry grass. They do not disappear like chaff that a storm blows away.
- Exodus 12:29At midnight, the Lord killed all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt. The firstborn son of Pharaoh, the king, died. But also, the firstborn son of any man who was in prison died. Every firstborn son in Egypt died. All the firstborn animals also died.
- 2 Kings 19:35That night, the Lord's angel went to the camp of the Assyrian army. He killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When people got up in the morning, they saw all those dead bodies!
- Daniel 5:30That same night, Belshazzar, the king of the Babylonians, died. His enemies killed him.
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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