Job 27:23 “It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.”

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

World English Bible

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

American Standard Version

Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Geneva Bible 1599

Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.

Darby Translation

[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Young's Literal Translation

It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

Bible in Basic English

Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

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Cross references

“clap”

Lamentations 2:15 Esther 9:22–25 Proverbs 11:10 Revelation 18:20

Lamentations 2:15 · BSB

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Esther 9:22–25 · BSB

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts…

Proverbs 11:10 · BSB

When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

Revelation 18:20 · BSB

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.

“hiss him”

1 Kings 9:8 Jeremiah 19:8 Zephaniah 2:15 Micah 6:16

1 Kings 9:8 · BSB

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Jeremiah 19:8 · BSB

I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Micah 6:16 · BSB

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of th…

Also

Job 18:18

Job 18:18 · BSB

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

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

In context

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

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