This house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’
Job 27:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 It claps its hands at them and hisses at them from its place. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [God causes] men to clap their hands at him [in malignant joy] and hiss him out of his place. American Standard Version (1901) Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place. Common English Bible It claps its hands over them, hisses at them from their place. Catholic Public Domain Version He will clasp his hands over himself, and he will hiss at himself, while considering his situation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place. |
This house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’
They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.
When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is jubilation.
And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,
For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
There is no assuaging your hurt; your wound is mortal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For who has ever escaped your endless cruelty?
Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.
Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.