The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Parallel translations
- WEB The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
- BSB The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- NKJV The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.
- NASB “The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; For it sweeps him away from his place.
- NLT The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away.
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Quick answer
The scorching east wind seizes the wicked man and sweeps him out of his place.
Overview
The east wind in the ancient Near East was a hot, destructive desert wind, a fitting image of God's judgment uprooting the wicked from home and security. Job emphasizes that no station in life is secure apart from God. This anticipates the biblical pattern that what is built on unrighteousness cannot stand the day of testing (Matthew 7:26-27).
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- Ps 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Ps 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- Job 7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- Matt 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Jer 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Hos 13:15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
- Nah 1:3–8The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Exod 9:23–25And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
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