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New Revised Standard

Job 27:22

It hurls at them without pity; they flee from its power in headlong flight.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Oppression;   Rich, the;   Wicked (People);  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Providence;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fain;   Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It blasts at him without mercy,while he flees desperately from its force.
Hebrew Names Version
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.
King James Version
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
English Standard Version
It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
New Century Version
The wind will hit them without mercy as they try to run away from its power.
New English Translation
It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.
Amplified Bible
"For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God's wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion; He flees in haste from its power.
New American Standard Bible
"For it will hurl at him without mercy; He will certainly try to flee from its power.
World English Bible
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.
Legacy Standard Bible
For it will hurl at him without sparing;He will surely try to flee from its power.
Berean Standard Bible
It hurls against him without mercy, while he flees headlong from its power.
Contemporary English Version
without showing mercy, as they try to escape.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, it hurls itself at him, sparing nothing; he does all he can to flee from its power.
Darby Translation
And [God] shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
They may try to run away from the power of the storm, but it will come down on them without mercy.
George Lamsa Translation
For God shall cast him out without pity, and he cannot escape out of his hand.
Good News Translation
it will blow down on them without pity while they try their best to escape.
Lexham English Bible
And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.
Literal Translation
For it will hurl at him, and will not spare; from its hand fleeing he will flee.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof.
American Standard Version
For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
Bible in Basic English
God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, it hurleth at him, and spareth not; he would fain flee from its power.
King James Version (1611)
For God shall cast vpon him, and not spare: hee would faine flee out of his hand.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
God shal cast vpon him, and not spare, though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
English Revised Version
For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He schal sende out turmentis on hym, and schal not spare; he fleynge schal `fle fro his hond.
Update Bible Version
For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
Webster's Bible Translation
For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
New King James Version
It hurls against him and does not spare; He flees desperately from its power.
New Living Translation
It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power.
New Life Bible
It comes at him without pity. He tries to run from its power as fast as he can.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And He will cast upon him and not spare, Out of his hand, shall he, swiftly flee;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.
Revised Standard Version
It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.
Young's Literal Translation
And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For it will hurl at him without sparing; He will surely try to flee from its power.

Contextual Overview

11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not conceal. 12 All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? 13 "This is the portion of the wicked with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty: 14 If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring have not enough to eat. 15 Those who survive them the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation. 16 Though they heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay— 17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. 18 They build their houses like nests, like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard. 19 They go to bed with wealth, but will do so no more; they open their eyes, and it is gone. 20 Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For God: Exodus 9:14, Deuteronomy 32:23, Joshua 10:11

not spare: Deuteronomy 29:20, Ezekiel 9:5, Ezekiel 9:6, Romans 8:32, 2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:5

he would fain flee: Heb. in fleeing he would flee, Job 20:24, Exodus 14:25-28, Judges 4:17-21, Isaiah 10:3, Amos 2:14, Amos 9:1-3

Reciprocal: Job 40:11 - Cast Psalms 78:50 - he spared Isaiah 30:14 - he shall not Lamentations 2:15 - clap Jonah 1:10 - he fled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare,.... Cast his sins upon him, which will lie as an intolerable weight upon his conscience; and his wrath upon him, which being poured out like fire, he will not be able to bear it; and deserved punishment on him, which, like a talent of lead, will bear him down to the lowest hell; and this will be done without showing any mercy at all; for, though the wicked have much of sparing mercy in this world, they have none in the next; there is sparing mercy now, but none in hell; God, that spared not the angels that sinned, nor the old world, nor Sodom and Gomorrah, will not spare them, 2 Peter 2:4; he that made them will have no mercy on them; and he that formed them will show them no favour:

he would fain flee out of his hands; in whose hands he is, not as all men are, being the works of his hands, and supported by him; much less as his people are, secure there; but in his hands as an awful and terrible Judge, condemning him for his sins, and sentencing him to everlasting punishment; and a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living and almighty God: there is no getting out of them, though "fleeing, he flees", as the phrase is, with all his might and main, with all the swiftness he can; it is all to no purpose; he is where he was, and must continue in the torment and misery he is in to all eternity; his worm of conscience will never die, nor the fire of divine wrath be ever quenched; though he will desire death ten thousand times over, he shall not find it, it shall flee from him, Revelation 9:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For God shall cast upon him - That is, God shall bring calamities upon him, or cast his thunderbolts upon him, and shall not pity him.

He would fain flee - He would gladly escape from the wrath of God, but he is unable to do it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 27:22. God shall cast upon him — Or, rather, the storm mentioned above shall incessantly pelt him, and give him no respite; nor can he by any means escape from its fury.


 
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