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.
17 Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."
17 I 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.
17 Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity."
17 I'll scatter my people before their enemies, like autumn leaves in a high wind. On their day of doom, they'll stare at my back as I walk away, catching not so much as a glimpse of my face."
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back and not the face In the day of their calamity."
17 I will scatter my people before their enemies as the east wind scatters dust. And in all their trouble I will turn my back on them and refuse to notice their distress."
(Read Jeremiah 18:11-17)
Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cooling, refreshing streams, they use them. In these things men will not leave a certainty for an uncertainty; but Israel left the ancient paths appointed by the Divine law. They walked not in the highway, in which they might travel safely, but in a way in which they must stumble: such was the way of idolatry, and such is the way of iniquity. This made their land desolate, and themselves miserable. Calamities may be borne, if God smile upon us when under them; but if he is displeased, and refuses his help, we are undone. Multitudes forget the Lord and his Christ, and wander from the ancient paths, to walk in ways of their own devising. But what will they do in the day of judgment!
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?