Parallel Verses
Amplified
“The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone;
It sweeps him out of his place.
New American Standard Bible
For it whirls him
King James Version
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Holman Bible
it carries him away from his place.
International Standard Version
He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.
A Conservative Version
The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.
American Standard Version
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
Bible in Basic English
The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.
Darby Translation
The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.
Julia Smith Translation
The east wind shall lift him up, and he shall go: and it shall sweep him away in storm from his place.
King James 2000
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.
Modern King James verseion
The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; for it whirls him out of his place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place.
NET Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
New Heart English Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
The Emphasized Bible
An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place;
Webster
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
World English Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
Youngs Literal Translation
Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
Themes
Death of the The Wicked » Frequently marked by terror
Death of the The Wicked » Frequently sudden and unexpected
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
20
“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals him away in the night.
“The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone;
It sweeps him out of his place.
“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;
He flees in haste from its power.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Exodus 9:23-25
Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning (fireballs) ran down to the earth and along the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Job 7:10
“He will not return again to his house,
Nor will his place know about him anymore.
Job 21:18
“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?
Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire;
Fire and
Psalm 58:9
Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
Psalm 83:15
So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.
Jeremiah 18:17
‘I will scatter them like an east wind
Before the enemy;
I will show them My back and not My face
In the day of their disaster [says the Lord].’”
Hosea 13:15
For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes),
An east wind (Assyria) will come,
The breath of the Lord rising from the desert;
And Ephraim’s spring will become dry
And his fountain will be dried up.
Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.
Nahum 1:3-8
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power
And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Matthew 7:27