KJV King James Version
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
WEB World English Bible
The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
ASV American Standard Version
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
Surrounding context — Job 27
18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
22 For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23 [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Psalm 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.Psalm 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.Psalm 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.Job 7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.Hosea 13:15Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.Exodus 9:23-25And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.Nahum 1:3-8The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD [hath] his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.
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