Job 27:22

Job 27:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
• English Standard Version (ESV)It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
• New King James Version (NKJV)It hurls against him and does not spare; He flees desperately from its power.
• New Living Translation (NLT)It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power.

Context of Job 27:22

20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night. 21The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. 23It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”

Job 27:22 word by word

וְיַשְׁלֵ֣ךְ עָ֭לָיו וְלֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל מִ֝יָּד֗וֹ בָּר֥וֹחַ יִבְרָֽח׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• shall castשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• upon him, and not spareחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550
• he would fainבָּרַחbârach · to fleeH1272
• out of his handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027

Cross-references for Job 27:22

• Exodus 9:14or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
• Deuteronomy 32:23“I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.
• Joshua 10:11As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
• Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.
• Ezekiel 9:5As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.
• Romans 8:32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
• Job 20:24Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
• Exodus 14:25He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.”
• Judges 4:17Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.
• Isaiah 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
• Amos 2:14The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.
• Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.

Commentaries on Job 27:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22God shall cast upon him - Or, rather, the storm mentioned above shall incessantly pelt him, and give him no respite; nor can he by any means escape from its fury.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22For God shall cast upon him - That is, God shall bring calamities upon him, or cast his thunderbolts upon him, and shall not pity him. He would fain flee - He would gladly escape from the wrath of God, but he is unable to do it.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 27:22

• Death
• Oppression
• Rich, the
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• God
• Deceit
• Heap
• Fain
• Job, Book of

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