Job 27:20


“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals him away in the night.

Job 15:21


“A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears;
While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].

Job 18:11


“Terrors frighten him on every side
And chase at his heels.

Exodus 12:29

Now it happened at midnight that the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

2 Kings 19:35

Then it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down 185,000 [men] in the camp of the Assyrians; when the survivors got up early in the morning, behold, all [185,000] of them were dead.

Job 20:8


“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;
Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 20:23


“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

Job 21:18


“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

Job 22:16


Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?

Job 34:20


“In a moment they die, even at midnight
The people are shaken and pass away,
And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.

Psalm 18:4


The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.

Psalm 42:7


Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Psalm 69:14-15


Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink;
Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

Daniel 5:30

During that same night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the invading army].

Jonah 2:3


“For You cast me into the deep,
Into the [deep] heart of the seas,
And the currents surrounded and engulfed me;
All Your breakers and billowing waves passed over me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

A tempest

Job 20:23

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
Job 21:18

“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?
Exodus 12:29
Now it happened at midnight that the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
Then it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down 185,000 [men] in the camp of the Assyrians; when the survivors got up early in the morning, behold, all [185,000] of them were dead.
Daniel 5:30
During that same night Belshazzar the [last] Chaldean king was slain [by troops of the invading army].

General references

Psalm 83:15

So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.