Job 27:21
Good News Translation
the east wind will sweep them from their homes;

New Revised Standard Version
The east wind lifts them up and they are gone; it sweeps them out of their place.

Contemporary English Version
Then a scorching wind will sweep them away

New American Bible
The east wind seizes him and he is gone; it sweeps him from his place;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

east wind

Jeremiah 18:17 As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

Hosea 13:15 Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.

a storm

Exodus 9:23-25 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. . . .

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Psalm 83:15 So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

Nahum 1:3-8 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet. . . .

Matthew 7:27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night: 21A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.…
Cross References
Job 7:10
Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more

Job 18:18
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Job 20:8
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Job 30:22
Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.

Psalm 58:9
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Psalm 102:10
Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

Jeremiah 18:17
As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

Job 27:20
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