20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
20 Terrors pour in on them like flash floods - a tornado snatches them away in the middle of the night,
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.
20 Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
24 Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.
24 Let them know what you think of them, Blast them with your red-hot anger.
24 Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
24 Pour out your fury on them; consume them with your burning anger.
(Read Psalm 69:22-29)
These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses Romans 11:9,10. When the supports of life and delights of sense, through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see, but shut their eyes against the light, loving darkness rather; their punishment was, that they should not see, but should be given up to their own hearts' lusts which hardened them. Those who reject God's great salvation proffered to them, may justly fear that his indignation will be poured out upon them. If men will sin, the Lord will reckon for it. But those that have multiplied to sin, may yet find mercy, through the righteousness of the Mediator. God shuts not out any from that righteousness; the gospel excludes none who do not, by unbelief, shut themselves out. But those who are proud and self-willed, so that they will not come in to God's righteousness, shall have their doom accordingly; they themselves decide it. Let those not expect any benefit thereby, who are not glad to be beholden to it. It is better to be poor and sorrowful, with the blessing of the Lord, than rich and jovial, and under his curse. This may be applied to Christ. He was, when on earth, a man of sorrows that had not where to lay his head; but God exalted him. Let us call upon the Lord, and though poor and sorrowful, guilty and defiled, his salvation will set us up on high.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:20
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?