Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he leaves; 1 it sweeps him out of his place. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 overtake him like waters; 1 a storm takes him away in the night. 1
22It throws itself at him and does not stop; 1 he tries to flee out of its hand. 1
Cross References
Exodus 9:23Moses reached out with his staff toward the sky, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning to the ground. He also rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind 1 or like chaff that the storm carries away? 1
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorn's burning heat, 1 he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green thorns and the burning thorns alike. 1
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before their enemies like an eastern wind. I will show them my back, and not my face, on the day of their disaster.'”
Nahum 1:3Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power; he will not allow the wicked to go unpunished. 1 Yahweh makes his way in the whirlwind and the storm, and the 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 →