Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals him away in the night.
New American Standard Bible
A tempest steals him away
King James Version
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Holman Bible
a storm
International Standard Version
Terror will overtake him like a flood, at night, a tornado will sweep him away.
A Conservative Version
Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
American Standard Version
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Bible in Basic English
Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.
Darby Translation
Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
Julia Smith Translation
Terrors shall hedge him about as waters, the night a tempest stole him away.
King James 2000
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.
Modern King James verseion
Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.
NET Bible
Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
New Heart English Bible
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
The Emphasized Bible
There shall reach him - like waters - terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;
Webster
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
World English Bible
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
Youngs Literal Translation
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.
Themes
Death of the The Wicked » Frequently marked by terror
Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in
Interlinear
Nasag
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
19
“He lies down rich, but never will again;
He opens his eyes, and it is gone.
“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals him away in the night.
“The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone;
It sweeps him out of his place.
Names
Cross References
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
2 Kings 19:35
Then it came to pass that night, that the
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
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.