Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
New American Standard Bible
And will
King James Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Holman Bible
and scorns him from its place.
International Standard Version
but it will clap its hands over him, hissing at him as it lunges toward him."
A Conservative Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
American Standard Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
Amplified
“People will clap their hands at him [to mock and ridicule him]
And hiss him out of his place.
Darby Translation
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Julia Smith Translation
It shall be clapped upon him with their hands, and it shall be hissed upon him from his place.
King James 2000
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.
Modern King James verseion
He shall clap His hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.
NET Bible
It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
New Heart English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
The Emphasized Bible
He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.
Webster
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
World English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Youngs Literal Translation
It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. 23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
Names
Cross References
Lamentations 2:15
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
1 Kings 9:8
And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
Esther 9:22-25
As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.
Job 18:18
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Proverbs 11:10
When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.
Jeremiah 19:8
And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.
Micah 6:16
For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
Revelation 18:20
Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.