Job 27:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly loosened] flood; a windstorm steals him away in the night.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Terrors overtake them like waters; a tempest snatches them by night;

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.

Job 27:20 Cross References

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten them on every side and chase them at their heels.

Jonah 2:3

You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your torrents; all your waves and your billows have gone over me.

Psalm 18:4

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me;

Job 34:20

In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw before the wind and like chaff that the storm carries away?

Job 20:23

To fill their belly to the full, God will send his fierce anger into them and rain it upon them as their food.

Job 20:8

They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

2 Kings 19:35

That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.

Job 24:18

“Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

Psalm 83:16

Fill their faces with shame, so that they may seek your name, O Lord.