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Selected Verse: Job 27:20 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 27:20 |
Strong Concordance |
Terrors [01091] take hold [05381] on him as waters [04325], a tempest [05492] stealeth him away [01589] in the night [03915]. |
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King James |
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Job 18:11; Job 22:11, Job 22:21). Like a sudden violent flood (Isa 8:7-8; Jer 47:2): conversely (Psa 32:6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 Mat 24:42-44. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Terrors - From the sense of approaching death or judgment. Waters - As violently and irresistibly, as a river breaking its banks, or deluge of waters bears down all before it. A tempest - God's wrath cometh upon him like a tempest, and withal unexpectedly like a thief in the night. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Terrors take hold on him as waters - They come upon him as an irresistible flood; and he is overwhelmed as by a tempest in the night, when darkness partly hides his danger, and deprives him of discerning the way to escape. |
6 For this shall every one that is godly [02623] pray [06419] unto thee in a time [06256] when thou mayest be found [04672]: surely in the floods [07858] of great [07227] waters [04325] they shall not come nigh [05060] unto him.
2 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Behold, waters [04325] rise up [05927] out of the north [06828], and shall be an overflowing [07857] flood [05158], and shall overflow [07857] the land [0776], and all that is therein [04393]; the city [05892], and them that dwell [03427] therein: then the men [0120] shall cry [02199], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776] shall howl [03213].
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord [0136] bringeth up [05927] upon them the waters [04325] of the river [05104], strong [06099] and many [07227], even the king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and all his glory [03519]: and he shall come up [05927] over all his channels [0650], and go over [01980] all his banks [01415]:
8 And he shall pass [02498] through Judah [03063]; he shall overflow [07857] and go over [05674], he shall reach [05060] even to the neck [06677]; and the stretching out [04298] of his wings [03671] shall fill [04393] the breadth [07341] of thy land [0776], O Immanuel [06005] [0410].
21 Acquaint [05532] now thyself with him, and be at peace [07999]: thereby good [02896] shall come [0935] unto thee.
11 Or darkness [02822], that thou canst not see [07200]; and abundance [08229] of waters [04325] cover [03680] thee.
11 Terrors [01091] shall make him afraid [01204] on every side [05439], and shall drive [06327] him to his feet [07272].
42 Watch [1127] therefore [3767]: for [3754] ye know [1492] not [3756] what [4169] hour [5610] your [5216] Lord [2962] doth come [2064].
43 But [1161] know [1097] this [1565], that [3754] if [1487] the goodman of the house [3617] had known [1492] in what [4169] watch [5438] the thief [2812] would come [2064], he would [302] have watched [1127], and [2532] would [302] not [3756] have suffered [1439] his [846] house [3614] to be broken up [1358].
44 Therefore [1223] [5124] be [1096] ye [5210] also [2532] ready [2092]: for [3754] in such [3739] an hour [5610] as ye think [1380] not [3756] the Son [5207] of man [444] cometh [2064].
17 How oft is the candle [05216] of the wicked [07563] put out [01846] ! and how oft cometh [0935] their destruction [0343] upon them! God distributeth [02505] sorrows [02256] in his anger [0639].
14 His confidence [04009] shall be rooted out [05423] of his tabernacle [0168], and it shall bring [06805] him to the king [04428] of terrors [01091].