Job 27:21
in Job 27The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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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.
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This verse in Job 27
Commentary
11 notes on this verseThe 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.
This site's exposition
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more
on Job 27:19-21
The man "lies down wealthy, but will do so no more". "Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night", which moves the list from slow loss to sudden ruin. "The east wind carries him away", the scorching desert wind acting with its own violence.
This site's exposition
The east wind carries him away
Barnes notes that the severe storms of this book come from the east, as at Job 15:2. Wesley takes the wind as a terrible judgment that carries the man from the palace he meant to keep forever. Clarke compares the eastern storm of Acts 27:14.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Finally, he shows the frailty of earthly prosperity as to the person himself of man, who sometimes may die from some fever or some persecution. To express this he says, "The blustering wind takes him away," that is, will kill him with fever, "and will …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
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.
Job's Protestation of His Sincerity. 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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East-wind - Some terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east-wind, which in those parts was most vehement, and pernicious. Carrieth him - Out of his palace wherein he expected to dwell forever; whence he shall be carried either by an enemy, or by death.
The east wind carrieth him away,.... Which is very strong and powerful, and carries all before it; afflictions are sometimes compared to it, Isa 27:8; and here either death, accompanied with the wrath of God, which carries the wicked man, sore against his will, out of the world, from his house, his family, his friends, his possessions, and estates, and carries him to hell to be a companion with devils, and share with them in all the miseries of that dreadful state and place.
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The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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:
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
The east wind carrieth him away - Such as is called by Mr. Good, a levanter, the euroclydon, the eastern storm of Act 27:14.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ | yisaehu | it will lift up him | H5375 → | 656 times |
| קָדִ֣ים | kadim | an east wind | H6921 → | 69 times |
| וְיֵלַ֑ךְ | veyelakh | so he may go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ | visaarehu | and it will whirl away him | H8175 → | |
| מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃ | mimekomo | from place his | H4725 → | 401 times |
יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּit will lift up him
yisaehuH5375 →656 times
קָדִ֣יםan east wind
kadimH6921 →69 times
וְיֵלַ֑ךְso he may go
veyelakhH1980 →1546 times
וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּand it will whirl away him
visaarehuH8175 →
מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃from place his
mimekomoH4725 →401 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 38:22
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.
- Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Luke 17:29
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- Ezekiel 13:13
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.
- Psalms 75:8
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…
- Ezekiel 38:22
Through
Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
it leads to
- Isaiah 17:13
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.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 1:4
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Isaiah 17:13
Through
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
it leads to
- Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
- Proverbs 10:25
Where this verse is studied
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.