Tree of Life Version
Job 27:21
21The east wind picks him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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
19“He lies down wealthy, but will gather no more. When he opens his eyes, all is gone! 20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm sweeps him away at night. The east wind picks him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22It hurls itself at him without pity as he flees headlong from its hand. 23It claps its hands at him in derision, and hisses him out of his place.”
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יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ קָדִ֣ים וְיֵלַ֑ךְ וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:21
- Jeremiah 18:17Like an east wind, I will scatter them before the enemy. I will see their back, not their face, in the day of their calamity.”
- Hosea 13:15Because he is the son of kinsmen, he should have been fruitful. An east wind will come— the wind from Adonai, coming up from the wilderness. His spring will become dry, and his fountain will dry up. He will plunder the treasury of every precious vessel.
- Exodus 9:23So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and Adonai sent thunder and hail. Fire came down on the earth, as Adonai rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fire, brimstone and scorching wind as the portion of their cup!
- Psalms 58:9Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
- Psalms 83:15As a fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
- Nahum 1:3Adonai is slow to anger and great in power, but He will by no means acquit the guilty. Adonai’s way is with a whirlwind or with a storm wind, Clouds are the dust of His feet.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and it fell—and great 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
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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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