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
Nasag
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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
He lies down wealthy and wakes up and all is gone.
20
A tempest steals him away
Names
Cross References
Job 15:21
Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.
Job 18:11
Terrors startle him on every side and chase him at his heels.
Exodus 12:29
At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.
2 Kings 19:35
It happened that night. Jehovah's angel killed one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers in the Assyrian camp. The next morning the Judeans saw all the corpses.
Job 20:8
He flies away like a dream banished like a vision of the night. He cannot be found!
Job 20:23
With his belly full, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.
Job 21:18
How often are they 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 is washed away by flood.
Job 34:20
They die suddenly in the middle of the night. People have seizures and pass away. Mighty people are taken away but not by human hands.
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death surrounded me. The torrents of wickedness frightened me.
Psalm 42:7
One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.
Psalm 69:14-15
Deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Jonah 2:3
For you threw me into the deep, in the heart of the seas. The current was all around me. All your waves, your huge breakers passed over me!