Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Terrors overtake him like a flood;
A tempest steals him away in the night.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Terrors overtake him like a flood;
a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלּהה 
Ballahah 
Usage: 10

נשׂג 
Nasag 
Usage: 50

on him as waters
מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

סוּפה 
Cuwphah 
Usage: 16

גּנב 
Ganab 
Usage: 40

References

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job Continues His Final Speech

19 He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone. 20 Terrors overtake him like a flood;
A tempest steals him away in the night.
21 The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Cross References

Job 15:21

Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

2 Kings 19:35

And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 20:23

To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

Job 21:18

That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

Job 34:20

In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

Psalm 18:4

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

Psalm 69:14-15

Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

Jonah 2:3

For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

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