Job 27:20

What does Job 27:20 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 27:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.

Context

v.19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

v.20This passage

v.21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 18:11

    Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

  • 2 Kings 19:35

    And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

  • Job 20:8

    He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

  • Jonah 2:3

    For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

  • Exodus 12:29

    And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

  • Daniel 5:30

    In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

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