Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
a storm
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.
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
Nasag
Mayim
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
19
when he opens his eyes, it is gone.
a storm
it carries him away from his place.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:21
when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.
Job 18:11
and harass him at every step.
Exodus 12:29
Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male 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 every firstborn of the livestock.
2 Kings 19:35
That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
Job 20:8
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Job 20:23
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining
Job 21:18
like chaff
Job 22:16
and their foundations
Job 34:20
people shudder, then pass away.
Even the mighty are removed without effort.
Psalm 18:4
the torrents of destruction terrified me.
Psalm 42:7
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
Psalm 69:14-15
Let me be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep waters.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
Jonah 2:3
into the heart of the seas,
and the current
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.