Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [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.
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.
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
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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 [with] wealth, but {he will do so no more}; he opens his eyes, and {it is gone}. 20 Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night. 21 [The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:21
Sounds of terror [are] in his ears; in prosperity [the] destroyer will come [against] him.
Job 18:11
"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.
Exodus 12:29
{And} in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who [was] in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal.
2 Kings 19:35
It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.
Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.
Job 20:23
{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.
Job 21:18
[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?
Job 22:16
who were snatched away {before their time}, whose foundation was washed away [by] a current?
Job 34:20
[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.
Psalm 18:4
The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.
Psalm 42:7
Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.
Psalm 69:14-15
Deliver me from [the] mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from [those who] hate me and from [the] watery depths.
Daniel 5:30
{That same night} Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.
Jonah 2:3
And you threw me [into the] deep, into the heart of [the] seas, and [the] sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me.