Job 27:21
The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
20Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.
22And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23Then Moses stretched out his rod towarde heauen, and the Lord sent thunder and haile, and lightening vpon the ground: and the Lord caused haile to raine vpon the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
Psalms 58:9As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them with an East winde before the enemie: I will shewe them the backe, and not the face in the day of their destruction.
Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger, but he is great in power, and will not surely cleare the wicked: the Lord hath his way in ye whirlewind, and in the storme, and the cloudes are the dust of his feete.
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 →