Job 27:21
New International Version
The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

New Living Translation
The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away.

English Standard Version
The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

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

King James Bible
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

New King James Version
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.

New American Standard Bible
“The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; For it sweeps him away from his place.

NASB 1995
“The east wind carries him away, and he is gone, For it whirls him away from his place.

NASB 1977
“The east wind carries him away, and he is gone, For it whirls him away from his place.

Legacy Standard Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he goes, And it whirls him away from his place.

Amplified Bible
“The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.

Christian Standard Bible
An east wind picks him up, and he is gone; it carries him away from his place.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
An east wind picks him up, and he is gone; it carries him away from his place.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he will go and it will take him away from his place

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.

Contemporary English Version
Then a scorching wind will sweep them away

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The east wind carries him away, and he's gone. It sweeps him from his place.

Good News Translation
the east wind will sweep them from their homes;

International Standard Version
He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

Literal Standard Version
An east wind takes him up, and he goes, | And it frightens him from his place,

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

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

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

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

New Heart English Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

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Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night. 21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.…

Cross References
Job 7:10
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Job 21:18
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Job 30:22
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns--whether green or dry--He will sweep them away.

Psalm 102:10
because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.


Treasury of Scripture

The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurles him out of his place.

east wind

Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Hosea 13:15
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

a storm

Exodus 9:23-25
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt…

Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

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Verse 21. - The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth. The khamsin wind, coming with all its violence and burning heat, drives him before it, and is irresistible (see 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 2. p. 482). And as a storm hurleth him out of his place. This is little more than a repetition of the previous hemistich. The man is swept from the earth by a storm of calamity

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The east wind
קָדִ֣ים (qā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6921: The fore, front part, the East

carries him away,
יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ (yiś·śā·’ê·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

and he is gone;
וְיֵלַ֑ךְ (wə·yê·laḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

it sweeps him
וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ (wî·śā·‘ă·rê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8175: To storm, to shiver, fear

out of his place.
מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃ (mim·mə·qō·mōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition


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