Job 27:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ It claps its hands at them and hisses at them from its place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ [God causes] men to clap their hands at him [in malignant joy] and hiss him out of his place.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Common English Bible

²³ It claps its hands over them, hisses at them from their place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ 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

²³ He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

Job 27:23 Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

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 18:18

They are thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

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.

Job 28:1

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place for gold to be refined.

Job 34:37

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Job 7:10

they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.

Proverbs 11:10

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is jubilation.

Jeremiah 19:8

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.

Lamentations 2:15

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?”

Ezekiel 25:6

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,

Micah 6:16

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.

Nahum 3:19

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?

Zephaniah 2:15

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.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.