Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
There shall reach him - like waters - terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;
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.
Amplified
“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;
A windstorm steals 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.
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
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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 The rich man, shall lie down, and not do it again, his eyes, hath he opened, and then is not. 20 There shall reach him - like waters - terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away; 21 An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place;
Names
Cross References
Job 15:21
A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;
Job 18:11
Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, at midnight, that Yahweh, smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat upon his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the pit of his prison, - and every firstborn of beasts.
2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass, during that night, that the messenger of Yahweh went forth, and smote, in the camp of the Assyrians, a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And, when men arose early in the morning, lo! they were all, dead bodies!
Job 20:8
Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.
Job 20:23
It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain it upon him for his punishment.
Job 21:18
They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.
Job 22:16
Who were snatched away before the time, and, a stream, washed away their foundation?
Job 34:20
In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night, - A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;
Psalm 18:4
The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;
Psalm 42:7
Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.
Psalm 69:14-15
Rescue me out of the mire, lest I sink, Let me be rescued, From my haters, and, From abysses of waters:
Daniel 5:30
In that night, was slain - Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.
Jonah 2:3
For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.