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%

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

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

  • 19 He 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%

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

    15 Terrors 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%

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Job 24:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

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

    18 Swiftly 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.

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

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • 20 In 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%

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

    26 All 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.

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

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

  • 14 At 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.

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

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

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

  • 18 He 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;

  • 15 Behold, 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%

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

    30 He 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.

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

  • 4 He 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%

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

    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.

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

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

  • 19 As 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.

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

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

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Let 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.

    6 As 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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