Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him as waters, || By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
In Context
19He lies down rich, and he is not gathered, || He has opened his eyes, and he is not.
21An east wind takes him up, and he goes, || And it frightens him from his place,
Cross References
2 Kings 19:35And it comes to pass, in that night, that a messenger of YHWH goes out, and strikes one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Asshur, and they rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them [are] dead corpses.
Job 18:11Terrors have terrified him all around, || And they have scattered him—at his feet.
Job 20:23It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, || He sends forth against him || The fierceness of His anger, || Indeed, He rains on him in his eating.
Job 22:16Who have been cut down unexpectedly? A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Psalms 18:4Cords of death have surrounded me, || And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me from the mire, and do not let me sink, || Let me be delivered from those hating me, || And from deep places of 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 →