Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Men will clap their hands at him
And will hiss him from his place.

King James Version

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Holman Bible

It claps its hands at him
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.

Bible in Basic English

Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂפק ספק 
Caphaq 
Usage: 10

כּף 
Kaph 
Usage: 192

at him, and shall hiss
שׁרק 
Sharaq 
Usage: 12

References

Easton

Hastings

Job

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Continues His Final Speech

22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. 23 “Men will clap their hands at him
And will hiss him from his place.

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. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the joyous city that dwelled in security. She said in her heart, 'I am! There is no one else!' She has become an object of desolation, a place for wild animals to lie down in. Every one who passes by her will hiss, and wag his hand.

1 Kings 9:8

This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this 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 driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

Proverbs 11:10

The city rejoices when all goes well with the righteous. There is joyful shouting when the wicked perish.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

Micah 6:16

The statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab are observed. You walk in their counsels. I will make you desolation! The inhabitants will be hissed. You will bear the reproach of my people.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God pronounced judgment for you against her.

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