Job 27:22
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job 27:22 in other translations
| BSB | It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. |
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| WEB | For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand. |
| ASV | For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. |
| YLT | And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth. |
| DARBY | And God shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. |
| BBE | God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. |
| Webster | For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. |
What does Job 27:22 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 27:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:22
- 2 Peter 2:4-5
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- Ezekiel 24:14
I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God.
- Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
- Ezekiel 5:11
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
- Job 20:24
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- Exodus 9:14
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
- Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
- Amos 2:14
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
- Exodus 14:25-28
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
- Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Amos 9:1-3
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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Context
- 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 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job 27:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Dios pues descargará sobre él, y no perdonará: hará él por huir de su mano. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Dieu lance ses dards sur lui et ne l’épargne pas; il voudrait fuir loin de sa main. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Gott schleudert auf ihn ohne Schonung; seiner Hand möchte er flüchtend entfliehen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et mittet super eum, et non parcet: de manu ejus fugiens fugiet. |