21 The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
21 The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
21 A cyclone sweeps them up - gone! Not a trace of them left, not even a footprint.
21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.
21 The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away.
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
22 You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
22 You raised me up so I was riding high and then dropped me, and I crashed.
22 You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You spoil my success.
22 You throw me into the whirlwind and destroy me in the storm.
(Read Job 30:15-31)
Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:21
Commentary on Job 27:11-23
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?