Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
KJV
Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia : nocte opprimet eum tempestas.
Vulgate
συνήντησαν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὕδωρ αἱ ὀδύναι, νυκτὶ δὲ ὑφείλατο αὐτὸν γνόφος·
LXX
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
ASV
תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣/הוּ כַ֭/מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּ/וּ סוּפָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בַּלָּה֣וֹת
blhvt
noun · 10×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
ם
m
verb · 50×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
סוּפָֽה
svph
noun · 16×
תִּגְנֹ֤ב
tgnb
verb · 39×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 19:35 — And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, th
- Esth 7:9 — And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of H
- Exod 12:29 — And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dung
- Isa 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
- Job 15:21 — A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Job 15:21 — A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- Job 18:11 — Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- Job 20:23 — When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
- Job 20:25 — It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
- Job 21:18 — They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.