Job 27:21
A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
20Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.
22And it will hurl over him and will not spare him; fleeing from its power, he will go into exile.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moses extended his staff into the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and also lightning dashing across the earth. And the Lord rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
Psalms 58:9And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.
Jeremiah 18:17Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.”
Nahum 1:3The Lord is patient and great in strength, and those who are not clean, he makes innocent. The Lord is in a tempest, and his way is a whirlwind, and the clouds are dust at 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 →