Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, 1 and he departeth as a storm hurleth him forth from his makom. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 take hold on him as a flood, 1 a tempest stealeth him away in the lailah. 1
22For it will hurl against him, without sparing; 1 he desperately flees from its yad. 1
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moshe stretched forth his matteh toward Shomayim; and Hashem sent thunder and barad, and the eish flashed down upon the ground; and Hashem rained barad upon Eretz Mitzrayim.
Job 21:18They are as straw before the ruach, 1 and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 1
Psalms 58:9As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away; 1 like the stillborn child of an isha, that they may not see the shemesh. 1
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them 1 as with an east ruach (wind) before the oyev; 1 I will show them My oref (back), 1 and not My panim (face), 1 in the day of their calamity.
Nahum 1:3Hashem is slow to anger, 1 and great in ko'ach, 1 and will not at all leave the guilty unpunished; 1 Hashem hath His way in the whirlwind and in the tempest, 1 and the anan (clouds) are the dust of His feet. 1
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 →