Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.
Darby Translation
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
20Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
22And [God] shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and Jehovah gave thunder and hail; and the fire ran along the ground; and Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalms 58:9Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.
Jeremiah 18:17As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, his way is in the whirlwind and in 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 →