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Job 27:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place. "
Job 27:21
Verse in Context
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19 He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
23 Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
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Job 27:1
"Job again took up his parable, and said,"
Job 27:2
"“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter"
Job 27:3
"(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);"
Job 27:4
"surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit."
Job 27:5
"Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me."
Job 27:6
"I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live."
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