Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
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.
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
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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 goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone. 20 Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Names
Cross References
Job 15:21
Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
Exodus 12:29
It happened at midnight -- the Lord attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
That very night the Lord's messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.
Job 20:8
Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
Job 20:23
"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
Job 21:18
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
Job 22:16
men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
Job 34:20
In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
Psalm 18:4
The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Psalm 42:7
One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
Psalm 69:14-15
Rescue me from the mud! Don't let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!
Daniel 5:30
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Jonah 2:3
You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.