Job 27:20

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Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:21 : 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
  • Job 18:11 : 11 Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
  • Job 20:8 : 8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 “While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
  • Job 22:16 : 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
  • Job 34:20 : 20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
  • Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water! 15 Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the Pit devour me!
  • Dan 5:30 : 30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
  • Jonah 2:3 : 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
  • Exod 12:29 : 29 The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 That very night the LORD’s angel went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.

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  • Job 27:21-22
    2 verses
    84%

    21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • Job 27:19
    77%

    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

  • Job 30:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

    15Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

  • Job 22:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,

    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 18:11
    76%

    11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

  • Job 20:8
    76%

    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

  • Job 15:21
    75%

    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

  • Job 24:17-19
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    75%

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

    19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

  • Job 34:20
    74%

    20In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

  • Job 20:25-28
    4 verses
    74%

    25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

  • Isa 17:14
    74%

    14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • Job 18:14
    74%

    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

  • Prov 1:27
    73%

    27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

  • Job 18:18
    73%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

  • Job 14:11
    73%

    11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,

  • Job 12:15
    73%

    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 24:22
    72%

    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

  • Job 28:4
    72%

    4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • Job 20:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

  • Job 18:7
    72%

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • Isa 21:4
    72%

    4My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

  • Isa 28:19
    71%

    19Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.

  • Job 20:20
    71%

    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

  • Job 21:18
    71%

    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

  • Job 4:13
    71%

    13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

  • Job 12:20
    71%

    20He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

  • Job 34:25
    71%

    25Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

  • 2 Sam 22:5
    71%

    5The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

  • Job 14:19
    71%

    19as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

  • Job 36:18
    70%

    18Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

  • Ps 55:5
    70%

    5Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.

  • Job 21:20
    70%

    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

  • Ps 107:25
    70%

    25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

  • Ps 88:16
    70%

    16Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.