Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Terror will overtake him like a flood, at night, a tornado will sweep him away.
New American Standard Bible
A tempest steals him away
King James Version
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Holman Bible
a storm
A Conservative Version
Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
American Standard Version
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Amplified
“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals him away in the night.
Bible in Basic English
Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.
Darby Translation
Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
Julia Smith Translation
Terrors shall hedge him about as waters, the night a tempest stole him away.
King James 2000
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.
Modern King James verseion
Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.
NET Bible
Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
New Heart English Bible
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
The Emphasized Bible
There shall reach him - like waters - terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;
Webster
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
World English Bible
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
Youngs Literal Translation
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
Themes
Death of the The Wicked » Frequently marked by terror
Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
19 He will go to bed wealthy, but won't be doing that anymore! When he opens his eyes, it will be gone! 20 Terror will overtake him like a flood, at night, a tornado will sweep him away. 21 He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:21
Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.
Job 18:11
"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels.
Exodus 12:29
And so at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
2 Kings 19:35
That very night, the angel of the LORD went out to the camp of the Assyrian army and killed 185,000 men. Early the next morning, when the army of Israel arose, all 185,000 soldiers were dead.
Job 20:8
He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision."
Job 20:23
"It will come about that, when he has filled himself to the full, God will vent his burning anger on him; he will pour it out on him and on his body.
Job 21:18
May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.
Job 22:16
who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?
Job 34:20
"They die suddenly, in the middle of the night; people suffer seizures and pass away; even valiant men can be taken away and not by human hands.
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.
Psalm 42:7
Deep waters call out to what is deeper still; at the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your waves swirled over me.
Psalm 69:14-15
Rescue me from the mud and do not let me sink. Rescue me from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.
Daniel 5:30
That night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed,
Jonah 2:3
You cast me into the deep into the heart of the sea. Flood waters engulfed me. All your breakers and your waves swirled over me.