Job 27:21

"Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night."

Key Reflection

These verses vividly describe divine judgment as sudden and overwhelming, likening it to a destructive flood that comes unexpectedly during the night, symbolizing how God's wrath can snatch away an individual's security and peace without warning.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The east wind carrieth him away -He is swept off as by the violence of a tempest. Severe storms are represented in this book as coming from the East; compare the notes atJob 15:2. The ancients believed that people might be carried away by a tempest or whirlwind; compareIsaiah 41:16; see also Homer, Odyssey xx. 63ff: “Snatch me, ye whirlwinds far from human race, Test through the void illimitable space; Or if dismounted from the rapid cloud, Me with his whelming wave let Ocean shroud!” Compare the notes atJob 30:22.

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