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Job 27:21

Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare,.... Cast his sins upon him, which will lie as an intolerable weight upon his conscience; and his wrath upon him, which being poured out like fire, he will…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The east wind carrieth him away - He is swept off as by the violence of a tempest. Severe storms are represented in this book as coming from the East; compare the notes at Job 15:2. The ancients…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 27:11-23

Job's friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The east wind is gusty and tempestuous, ch. Job 38:24; Psa 48:7. See Wetzstein's note in Del.

and as a storm hurleth Or, and in storm hurleth. With this which Job says of the sinner compare what he…