Job 27 · Verse 23

Job 27:23

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job 27:23, King James Version

Job 27:23 in other translations

BSBIt claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
WEBMen will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
ASVMen shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
YLTIt clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
DARBYMen shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
BBEMen make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
WebsterMen shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

What does Job 27:23 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…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 Men shall clap their hands at him - These two verses refer to the storm, which is to sweep away the ungodly; therefore the word God, in Job 27:22, and men in this verse, should be omitted. Job 27:22 : "For it shall fall upon him, and not spare: flying from its power he shall continue to fly. Job 27:23. It shall clap its hands against him, and hiss, וישרק veyishrok, shriek, him out of his place." Here the storm is personified and the wicked actor is hissed and driven by it from off the stage. It seems it was an ancient method to clap the hands against and hiss a man from any public office, who had acted improperly in it. The populace, in European countries, express their disapprobation of public characters who have not pleased them in the same manner to the present day, by hisses, groans, and the like.

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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…

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Job 27:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יִשְׂפֹּ֣קyis.Poksomeone will clapH5606
עָלֵ֣ימוֹ'a.Lei.movon himH5921
כַפֵּ֑ימוֹkha.Pei.movhands theirH3709
וְיִשְׁרֹ֥קve.yish.Rokso he may hissH8319
עָ֝לָ֗יו'a.Lavon himH5921
מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ\׃mi.me.ko.Mofrom place hisH4725

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 27:23

  • Lamentations 2:15

    All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

  • 1 Kings 9:8

    And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  • Proverbs 11:10

    When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

  • Jeremiah 19:8

    And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

  • Zephaniah 2:15

    This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

  • Esther 9:22-25

    As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

  • Micah 6:16

    For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

  • Job 18:18

    He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Revelation 18:20

    Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
clap.
Es 9:22-25; Pr 11:10; La 2:15; Re 18:20
hiss him.
1Ki 9:8; Jer 19:8; Mic 6:16; Zep 2:15

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Context

  • 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.

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Job 27:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Batirán sus manos sobre él, y desde su lugar le silbarán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		On battra des mains sur lui, et on le chassera de son lieu avec des sifflements.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Man klatscht über ihn in die Hände, und zischt ihm nach von seiner Stätte aus.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Stringet super eum manus suas, et sibilabit super illum, intuens locum ejus.