Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and it sweepeth him out of his place.
Revised Version 1895
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 tempest stealeth him away in the night.
22For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Cross References
Exodus 9:23And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Job 21:18That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will look upon their back, and not their face, in the day of their calamity.
Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: the LORD hath 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 →