Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
World English Bible British
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. A storm steals him away in the night.
22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23Moses stretched out his rod towards the heavens, and the LORD sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in 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 →