Job 27:21
The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
In Context
20Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.
22God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
Psalms 58:9\58:8\Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
Jeremiah 18:17I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.
Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →