Job 27:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Terrors take hold on him as 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 dreadful sound 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 drive him to his feet.
• 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 shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
• Job 21:18 : 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
• Job 22:16 : 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
• Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
• Ps 18:4 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
• Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calleth{H8802)} unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone{H8804)} over me.
• Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver{H8685)} me out of the mire, and let me not sink{H8799)}: let me be delivered{H8735)} from them that hate{H8802)} me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow{H8799)} me, neither let the deep swallow me up{H8799)}, and let not the pit shut{H8799)} her mouth upon me.
• Dan 5:30 : 30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
• Jonah 2:3 : 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
• Exod 12:29 : 29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
• 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.