Job 27:20

Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

In Context

19Rich will he lie down, but will not be gathered [into the grave]: one openeth his eyes, and he is no more.

21The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place.

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:35And it came to pass, on the same night, that an angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty and five thousand men: and when people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Job 18:11All around do terrors scare him, and chase him as he walketh along.

Job 20:23In order to fill his belly, [God] will send out against him the fury of his wrath, and will rain it upon him for his eating.

Job 22:16Who were shrivelled up before their time, whose foundation was flooded away like a river;

Psalms 18:4(18:5) The bonds of death encompassed me, and the floods of destruction made me afraid.

Psalms 69:14(69:15) Deliver me out of the mire, that I may not sink: let me be delivered from those that hate me, and out of the depths of the waters.

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 →

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