Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Job 27:20 in other translations
| BSB | Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night. |
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| WEB | Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night. |
| ASV | Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. |
| YLT | Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind. |
| DARBY | Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night. |
| BBE | Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away. |
| Webster | Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. |
What does Job 27:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 27:11-23
11-23. 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:11-23
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…
Job 27:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:20
- Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- 2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Job 20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
- Daniel 5:30
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Psalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
- Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- Jonah 2:3
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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Context
- Job 27:19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
- Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job 27:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Asirán de él terrores como aguas: torbellino lo arrebatará de noche. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les frayeurs le surprennent comme des eaux; l’ouragan l’emporte de nuit; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Schrecken ereilen ihn wie Wasser, des Nachts entführt ihn ein Sturmwind. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia: nocte opprimet eum tempestas. |