Job 27:21
An east wind takes him up, and he goes, || And it frightens him from his place,
Literal Standard 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
20Terrors overtake him as waters, || By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.
22And it casts at him, and does not spare, || He diligently flees from its hand.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moses stretches out his rod toward the heavens, and YHWH has given voices and hail, and fire goes toward the earth, and YHWH rains hail on the land of Egypt,
Job 21:18They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,
Psalms 58:9Before your pots discern the bramble, || As living, He whirls away in His burning anger.
Jeremiah 18:17I scatter them before an enemy as with an east wind, || I show them the neck and not the face, || In the day of their calamity.”
Nahum 1:3YHWH [is] slow to anger, and great in power, || And YHWH does not entirely acquit, || In a windstorm and in a storm [is] His way, || And a cloud [is] 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 →