Parallel Verses
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.
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
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:20
Verse Info
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
A tempest steals him away
Names
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.