Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him, || And it hisses at him from his place.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
In Context
22And it casts at him, and does not spare, || He diligently flees from its hand.
Cross References
Esther 9:22as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that has been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions to one another, and gifts to the needy.
Proverbs 11:10A city exults in the good of the righteous, || And in the destruction of the wicked [is] singing.
Lamentations 2:15Everyone passing by the way clapped hands at you, || They have hissed—and they shake the head || At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?”
Nahum 3:19There is no weakening of your destruction, || Your striking [is] grievous, || All hearing your fame have clapped the hand at you, || For over whom did your wickedness not pass continually?
Revelation 18:20Be glad over her, O Heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, because God judged your judgment of her!”
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 →