Job 27:20

Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

In Context

19When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

21The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:35And the same night the Angell of the Lord went out and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth foure score and fiue thousande: so when they rose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Job 18:11Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.

Job 20:23He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

Job 22:16Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

Psalms 18:4The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.

Psalms 69:14Deliuer mee out of the myre, that I sinke not: let me be deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters.

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 →

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