KJV King James Version
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Job 27:23
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
WEB World English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
ASV American Standard Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.
Surrounding context — Job 27
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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Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?1 Kings 9:8And at this house, [which] is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?Zephaniah 2:15This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.Jeremiah 19:8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.Revelation 18:20Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.Proverbs 11:10When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting.Esther 9:22-25As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.Micah 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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