约伯记 27:20-21 CUVS

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:13-23

The portion of a wicked man. Job seems to be echoing the teaching of his friends which he has previously repudiated. Now he urges that the wicked man does meet with trouble as the wages of his misdeeds. But Job looks further than his friends. He does not associate particular and immediate troubles with guilt as they do; he takes a large view of life; he embraces the whole career; and from that he draws his conclusions. The striking thing about this picture is that success is converted into... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:20

Terrors take hold on him as waters (comp. Job 18:11 ). Terrors sweep over the wicked man like a flood of waters—vague terrors with respect to the past, the present, and the future. He fears the vengeance of these whom he has oppressed and injured, the loss of his prosperity at any moment by a reverse of fortune, and a final retribution at the hand of God commensurate with his ill desert. He is at all times uneasy; sometimes he experiences a sudden rush upon him of such gloomy thoughts,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth . The khamsin wind, coming with all its violence and burning heat, drives him before it, and is irresistible. And as a storm hurleth him out of his place . This is little more than a repetition of the previous hemistich. The man is swept from the earth by a storm of calamity read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:21

The east wind. Kingsley wrote an ode to the east wind. But few men have a good word for it. We in England, however, have quite our share of the presence of this unwelcome visitor. Has the east wind any religious significance to us. I. THERE ARE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES IN NATURE . The east wind is destructive. It brings blight to plants and illness to men. We might have expected that a perfect world would have only fresh, healthy west winds. Yet we must recognize the fact that,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 27:20

Terrors-take hold on him as waters - That is, as suddenly and violently as angry floods; compare the notes at Job 18:14.A tempest stealeth him away - He is suddenly cut off by the wrath of God. A tempest comes upon him as unexpectedly as a thief or robber comes at night. Death is often represented as coming upon man with the silence of a thief, or the sudden violence of a robber at midnight; see the note at Job 21:17; compare Matthew 24:42-44. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 27:21

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 Isaiah 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!”PopeCompare... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:20

Job 27:20. Terrors take hold on him From the sense of approaching death or judgment. As waters As violently and irresistibly as a river breaking its banks, or a deluge of waters bears down all before it. A tempest stealeth, &c. God’s wrath cometh upon him like a tempest, and withal unexpectedly like a thief in the night. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:21-22

Job 27:21-22. The east wind Some terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east wind, which, in those parts, was most vehement, furious, pestilential, and destructive; carrieth him away Out of his place, as it follows; out of his stately mansion, where he expected to dwell for ever; whence he shall be carried, either by an enemy or by death. For God shall cast upon him His darts or plagues, one after another and not spare That is, shall show no pity or mercy to him when he crieth to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 27:1-23

27:1-31:40 JOB’S SUMMARYThe traditional teaching (27:1-23)According to the established pattern of the debate, Zophar should speak next, but when he does not, Job proceeds to summarize his own position. He restates that, in spite of his suffering and bitterness, he is innocent of the great wrongdoing of which they accuse him, and he assures them that he intends to remain innocent (27:1-6).Job knows as well as his friends do that the ungodly will, in the end, be punished and no final cry for... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 27:20

Job 27:20. Terrors take hold on him, &c.— See Proverbs 10:25. The meaning of the high metaphors in these verses is, that he dieth, as most wicked men do, in the utmost terror, tumult, and confusion. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:13-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 27:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 27:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 27:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 27:21-22

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 27:1-23

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 27:20

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