Job 27:20

In 11 translations

BSB

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

KJV

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

WEB

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

ASV

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

LSV

Terrors overtake him as waters, || By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.

YLT

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

DBY

Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.

DRC

Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.

GNV

Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.

JPS

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

LXXE

Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

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Original-language editions

WLC

תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Συνήντησαν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὕδωρ αἱ ὀδύναι, νυκτὶ δὲ ὑφείλατο αὐτὸν γνόφος.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 15:21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
• Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
• Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
• 2 Kings 19:35And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
• Exodus 12:29Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among…
• Job 20:23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
• Job 34:20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
• Psalms 69:14–15Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters. Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
• Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
• Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
• Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
• Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
• Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
• Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

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