Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job 27:21 in other translations
| BSB | The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. |
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| WEB | The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place. |
| ASV | The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. |
| YLT | Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place, |
| DARBY | The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place. |
| BBE | The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place. |
| Webster | The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. |
What does Job 27:21 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 27:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:21
- Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 83:15
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Nahum 1:3-8
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. …
- Hosea 13:15
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
- Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Exodus 9:23-25
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
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Context
- 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 27:22
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job 27:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Lo antecogerá el solano, y partirá; y tempestad lo arrebatará del lugar suyo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le vent d’orient l’enlève, et il s’en va, et dans un tourbillon il l’emporte de son lieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Ostwind hebt ihn empor, daß er dahinfährt, und stürmt ihn fort von seiner Stätte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tollet eum ventus urens, et auferet, et velut turbo rapiet eum de loco suo. |