Job 27:20
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
In Context
19Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.
21Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
Cross References
2 Kings 19:35And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
Job 18:11Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
Job 20:23It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.
Job 22:16Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Psalms 18:4Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of 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 →