Job 27:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

Transliteration

taśśîḡēhû ḵammayim ballāhôṯ laylâ gənāḇattû sûp̄â

Grammar Details

• *taśśîḡēhû*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it overtakes him
• *ḵammayim*: preposition + definite article + noun masculine plural - like the waters
• *ballāhôṯ*: noun feminine plural - terrors
• *laylâ*: noun masculine singular - night
• *gənāḇattû*: Qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - she steals him away
• *sûp̄â*: noun feminine singular - storm/whirlwind

Word Meanings

• *nāśaḡ*: reach/overtake/catch up with
• *mayim*: water/waters
• *ballāhâ*: terror/alarm/destruction
• *laylâ*: night
• *gānaḇ*: steal/carry off
• *sûp̄â*: storm/tempest/whirlwind

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.