Job 27:21 “The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of h…”

Job 27:21

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

American Standard Version

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

Geneva Bible 1599

The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him 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.

Young's Literal Translation

Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

Bible in Basic English

The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

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Cross references

“east wind”

Jeremiah 18:17 Hosea 13:15

Jeremiah 18:17 · BSB

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

Hosea 13:15 · BSB

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious…

“a storm”

Psalm 11:6 Psalm 83:15 Psalm 58:9 Exodus 9:23–25 Nahum 1:3–8 Matthew 7:27

Psalm 11:6 · BSB

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

Psalm 83:15 · BSB

so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

Psalm 58:9 · BSB

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.

Exodus 9:23–25 · BSB

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

Nahum 1:3–8 · BSB

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Matthew 7:27 · BSB

The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”

Also

Job 21:18 Job 7:10

Job 21:18 · BSB

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Job 7:10 · BSB

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

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