Job 27:21

Burning wind shall take him (up), and it shall do him away; and as a whirlwind it shall ravish him from his place (or and like a whirlwind it shall snatch him away from his place).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

20Poverty as water shall take him (or Poverty shall overtake him like a flood); and (a) tempest shall oppress him in the night.

22The Lord shall send out (these) torments upon him, and shall not spare; (and) he fleeing shall flee from his hand.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:23And Moses held forth the rod into heaven (or And Moses stretched forth his staff toward the heavens); and the Lord gave thunders, and hail, and lightnings running about on (all) the land; and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;

Job 21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind; and as a dead spark, that the whirlwind scattereth abroad. (Be they ever like chaff before the face of the wind? or like a dead spark that the whirlwind scattereth abroad?)

Psalms 58:9Before that your thorns understood the rhamn, either thieve-thorn; he swalloweth them so in ire, as (with) living men. (Before that the rhamn, or the thieve-thorn, that is, a weed, can grow, he shall swallow them up in his anger; yea, while they still be living.)

Jeremiah 18:17As a burning wind I shall scatter them before the enemy (or Like a burning wind I shall scatter them before the enemy); I shall show to them the back and not the face, in the day of the perdition of them.

Nahum 1:3The Lord is patient, and great in strength, and he cleansing shall not make (the wicked) innocent. The Lord cometh in tempest, and the ways of him be in whirlwind, and clouds be the dust of his feet; (The Lord is patient, and great in strength, and in cleansing, he shall not make the wicked innocent, or let them go unpunished. The Lord cometh in the tempest, and his ways be in the whirlwind, and the clouds be 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 →

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