Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
BSB
ASV
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
KJV
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
The scorching wind shall carry him off, and take him away. And as a whirlwind shall carry him out of his place. Who is in this place called the 'scorching wind' but the evil spirit, who stirs up the flames of divers lusts in the heart, that he may drag it to an eternity of punishments? And so 'the scorching wind' is said to 'carry off' any bad men, because the plotter, the evil spirit, who inflames a man whilst living to evil, drags him when dying to torments.
Death, to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country, but, to a wicked man, it is like an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.
The east wind carrieth him away - He is swept off as by the violence of a tempest. Severe storms are represented in this book as coming from the East; compare the notes at Job 15:2. The ancients believed that people might be carried away by a tempest or whirlwind; compare Isa 41:16; see also Homer, Odyssey xx. 63ff: “Snatch me, ye whirlwinds far from human race, Test through the void illimitable space; Or if dismounted from the rapid cloud, Me with his whelming wave let Ocean shroud!” Pope Compare the notes at Job 30:
The fact is, it is probable that Job tacitly, by giving, in the twenty-eighth chapter, only a general answer, implies, that in spite of the wicked often dying, as he said, in prosperity, he does not mean to deny that the wicked are in the main dealt with according to right, and that God herein vindicates His moral government even here.
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Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
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I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the…
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Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
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The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
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Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
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Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
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When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
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