Parallel Verses
Amplified
“People will clap their hands at him [to mock and ridicule him]
And hiss him out of his place.
New American Standard Bible
And will
King James Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Holman Bible
and scorns him from its place.
International Standard Version
but it will clap its hands over him, hissing at him as it lunges toward him."
A Conservative Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
American Standard Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
Bible in Basic English
Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
Darby Translation
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Julia Smith Translation
It shall be clapped upon him with their hands, and it shall be hissed upon him from his place.
King James 2000
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.
Modern King James verseion
He shall clap His hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.
NET Bible
It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
New Heart English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
The Emphasized Bible
He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.
Webster
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
World English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Youngs Literal Translation
It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
22
“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;
He flees in haste from its power.
“People will clap their hands at him [to mock and ridicule him]
And hiss him out of his place.
Names
Cross References
Lamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They scoff and shake their heads
At the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that was called
‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of all the earth’?”
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the joyous city
Which dwells carelessly [feeling so secure],
Who says in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”
What a desolation she has become,
A lair for [wild] animals!
Everyone who passes by her will hiss [in scorn]
And wave his hand in contempt.
1 Kings 9:8
This house (temple) will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be appalled and
Esther 9:22-25
because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and as the month which was turned for them from grief to joy and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending choice portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Job 18:18
“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.
Proverbs 11:10
When it goes well for the righteous, the city rejoices,
And when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues and disasters.
Micah 6:16
“For [you have kept] the statutes of Omri [the idolatrous king],
And all the works of the [wicked] house (dynasty) of Ahab;
And you walk in their counsels and policies.
Therefore, I shall hand you over for destruction and horror
And your [city’s] inhabitants for ridicule,
And you shall bear the rebuke and scorn of My people.”
Revelation 18:20
Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints (God’s people) and apostles and prophets [who were martyred], because God has executed vengeance for you [through righteous judgment] upon her.”