Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he perisheth; Yea, it sweepeth him away from his place.
Noyes Bible
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 pursue him like a flood; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
22God sendeth his arrows at him, and doth not spare; He would fain escape from His hand.
Cross References
Job 21:18How often are they as stubble before the wind, Or as chaff, which the whirlwind carrieth away?
Psalms 58:9Before your pots feel the heat of the thorns, Whether fresh, or burning, may they be blown away!
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy, as with the east wind; I will show them the back, and not the face, In the day of their calamity.
Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, but great in power; He will by no means clear the guilty; Jehovah cometh in the whirlwind and the storm, And the 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 →