New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 27:20
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
18He has built his house like the spider’s web, Or as a hut which the watchman has made. 19He lies down rich, but never again; He opens his eyes, and it is no longer. Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night. 21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone, For it whirls him away from his place. 22For it will hurl at him without sparing; He will surely try to flee from its power.
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תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 27:20
- Job 15:21Sounds of terror are in his ears; While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
- Job 18:11All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.
- Job 22:16Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were washed away by a river?
- Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me, And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
- Psalms 69:14Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.
- Jonah 2:3For You had cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current engulfed me. All Your breakers and billows passed over me.
- Job 20:23When he fills his belly, God will send His fierce anger on him And will rain it on him while he is eating.
- Job 21:18Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?
- Exodus 12:29Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
- 2 Kings 19:35Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.
- Daniel 5:30That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
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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