Job 27:21
A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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
20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:
22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
Psalms 58:9But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
Jeremiah 18:17As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.
Nahum 1:3The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and 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 →