Job 27:20

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:21 : 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
  • Job 18:11 : 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
  • Job 20:8 : 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
  • Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
  • Jonah 2:3 : 3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 27:21-22
    2 verses
    84%

    21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

    22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

  • 19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

  • Job 30:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me] .

    15Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

  • Job 22:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,

    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

  • 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

  • 21A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  • Job 24:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

    24Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • 20In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

  • Job 20:25-28
    4 verses
    74%

    25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

    28The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

  • 14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • 14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

  • 19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 27When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.

  • 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • 11[ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

  • 15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • 22Yet [God] preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

  • 4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

  • Job 20:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

    23When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

  • 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 4My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

  • 19As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.

  • 20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

  • 18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

  • 20He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

  • 25Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • 5For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:

  • 19The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

  • 18For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

  • 5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

  • 20Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 25For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

  • 16Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.