Job 27:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Job 27:20 —

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Cross-References

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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 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Job 34:20
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-23)

Job’s friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

11-23. These words are contrary to Job’s previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job’s statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends’ opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does n…