Job 27:20

Contemporary English Version

Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Terrors overtake him like a flood;a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

Hebrew Names Version
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

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

English Standard Version
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

New Century Version
Fears come over them like a flood, and a storm snatches them away in the night.

New English Translation
Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

Amplified Bible
"Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood; A windstorm steals him away in the night.

New American Standard Bible
"Terrors overtake him like a flood; A storm steals him away in the night.

World English Bible
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.

Legacy Standard Bible
Terrors overtake him like many waters;A tempest steals him away in the night.

Berean Standard Bible
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Complete Jewish Bible
Terrors overtake him like a flood; at night a whirlwind steals him away.

Darby Translation
Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.

Easy-to-Read Version
Terrible fears will come over them like a flood, like a storm in the night that blows everything away.

George Lamsa Translation
Terrors overtake him like swift water, and like a tempest that rages.

Good News Translation
Terror will strike like a sudden flood; a wind in the night will blow them away;

Lexham English Bible
Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off in the night.

Literal Translation
Fears shall overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Destruccion taketh holde vpo him as a water floude, & ye tepest stealeth him awaye in the night season.

American Standard Version
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Bible in Basic English
Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

King James Version (1611)
Terrours take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

English Revised Version
Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Pouert as water schal take hym; and tempeste schal oppresse hym in the nyyt.

Update Bible Version
Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

Webster's Bible Translation
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

New King James Version
Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.

New Living Translation
Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.

New Life Bible
Fears come over him like a flood. A storm carries him away in the night.

New Revised Standard
Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There shall reach him - like waters - terrors, By night, a storm-wind hath stolen him away;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

Revised Standard Version
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

Young's Literal Translation
Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Now I will explain in detail what God All-Powerful does. ¹² All of you have seen these things for yourselves. So you have no excuse. ¹³ Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal. ¹⁴ They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death. ¹⁵ Others will die of disease, and their widows won't be able to weep. ¹⁶ The wicked may collect riches and clothes in abundance as easily as clay. ¹⁷ But God's people will wear clothes taken from them and divide up their riches. ¹⁸ No homes built by the wicked will outlast a cocoon or a shack. ¹⁹ Those sinners may go to bed rich, but they will wake up poor. ²⁰ Terror will strike at night like a flood or a storm.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Terrors: Job 15:21, Job 18:11, Job 22:16, Psalms 18:4, Psalms 42:7, Psalms 69:14, Psalms 69:15, Jonah 2:3

a tempest: Job 20:23, Job 21:18, Exodus 12:29, 2 Kings 19:35, Daniel 5:30

Reciprocal: Esther 7:9 - Behold Job 20:25 - terrors Psalms 83:15 - General Psalms 90:5 - Thou Psalms 103:16 - the wind Proverbs 14:32 - driven Isaiah 1:15 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 24:12
The servant prayed: You, Lord , are the God my master Abraham worships. Please keep your promise to him and let me find a wife for Isaac today.

Exodus 20:7
Do not misuse my name. I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.

Job 13:7
Are you telling lies for God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Terrors take hold on him as waters,.... The terrors of death, and of an awful judgment that is to come after it; finding himself dying, death is the king of terrors to him, dreading not only the awful stroke of death itself, but of what is to follow upon it; or rather these terrors are those that seize the wicked man after death; perceiving what a horrible condition he is in, the terrors of a guilty conscience lay hold on him, remembering his former sins with all the aggravating circumstances of them; the terrors of the law's curses lighting upon him, and of the wrath and fury of the Almighty pouring out on him and surrounding him, and devils and damned spirits all about him. These will seize him "as waters", like a flood of waters, denoting the abundance of them, "terror on every side", a "Magormissabib",

Jeremiah 20:3, will he be, and coming with great rapidity, with an irresistible force, and without ceasing, rolling one after another in a sudden and surprising manner:

a tempest stealeth him away in the night; the tempest of divine wrath, from which there is no shelter but the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ; this comes like a thief, suddenly and unexpectedly, and steals the wicked man out of this world; or rather from the judgment seat, and carries him into the regions of darkness, of horror and black despair, where he is surrounded with the aforesaid terrors; this is said to be in the night, to make it the more shocking and terrible, see

Luke 12:19; and may have respect to that blackness that attends a tempest, and to that blackness of darkness reserved for wicked men, Judges 1:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Terrors-take hold on him as waters - That is, as suddenly and violently as angry floods; compare the notes at Job 18:14.

A tempest stealeth him away - He is suddenly cut off by the wrath of God. A tempest comes upon him as unexpectedly as a thief or robber comes at night. Death is often represented as coming upon man with the silence of a thief, or the sudden violence of a robber at midnight; see the note at Job 21:17; compare Matthew 24:42-44.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 27:20. Terrors take hold on him as waters — They come upon him as an irresistible flood; and he is overwhelmed as by a tempest in the night, when darkness partly hides his danger, and deprives him of discerning the way to escape.