Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
21. The east wind is gusty and tempestuous, ch. Job 38:24, Psa 48:7. See Wetzstein’s note in Del.
and as a storm hurleth ] Or, and in storm hurleth. With this which Job says of the sinner compare what he says of himself, ch. Job 9:17, Job 30:22, “Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest me in the tempest”; and see his former query regarding the wicked, ch. Job 21:18.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The east wind carrieth him away – He is swept off as by the violence of a tempest. Severe storms are represented in this book as coming from the East; compare the notes at Job 15:2. The ancients believed that people might be carried away by a tempest or whirlwind; compare Isa 41:16; see also Homer, Odyssey xx. 63ff:
Snatch me, ye whirlwinds far from human race,
Test through the void illimitable space;
Or if dismounted from the rapid cloud,
Me with his whelming wave let Ocean shroud!
Pope
Compare the notes at Job 30:22. The parallelism here would seem to imply that the wind referred to was violent, but it is possible that the allusion may be to the burning winds of the desert, so well known in the East, and so frequently described by travelers. The Vulgate here renders the Hebrew word qadym, ventus urens, burning wind; the Septuagint in like manner, kauson; the Syriac simply wind. This east wind, or burning wind, is what the Arabians call Samum. It is a hot wind which passes over the desert, and which was formerly supposed to be destructive of life. More recent travelers however, tell us that it is not fatal to life, though exceedingly oppressive.
And as a storm – See Psa 58:9.
Hurleth him out of his place – Takes him entirely away, or removes him from the earth.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 21. The east wind carrieth him away] Such as is called by Mr. Good, a levanter, the euroclydon, the eastern storm of Ac 27:14.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The east wind, i.e. some violent and terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east wind, which in those parts was most vehement and furious, and withal pestilent and pernicious; of which see Exo 10:13; 14:21; Psa 48:7; 78:26; Hos 13:15; Jon 4:8.
Carrieth him away, out of his place, as it follows, out of his stately palace, wherein he expected to dwell for ever; whence he shall be carried either by an enemy, that shall take him and carry him into captivity, or by death.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. (Job 21:18;Job 15:2; Psa 58:9).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The east wind carrieth him away,…. Which is very strong and powerful, and carries all before it; afflictions are sometimes compared to it, Isa 27:8; and here either death, accompanied with the wrath of God, which carries the wicked man, sore against his will, out of the world, from his house, his family, his friends, his possessions, and estates, and carries him to hell to be a companion with devils, and share with them in all the miseries of that dreadful state and place. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it, “a burning wind”, such as are frequent in the eastern countries, which carry a man off at once, so that he has only time at most to say, I burn, and immediately drops down dead, as Thevenot, and other travellers, relate; which is thus described;
“it is a wind called “Samiel”, or poison wind, a very hot one, that reigns in summer from Mosul to Surrat, but only by land, not upon the water; they who have breathed that wind fall instantly dead upon the place, though sometimes they have time to say that they burn within. No sooner does a man die by this wind but he becomes as black as a coal; and if one take him by his leg, arm, or any other place, his flesh comes from the same, and is plucked off by the hand that would lift him up n:”
and again, it is observed, that in Persia, if a man, in June or July, breathes in certain hot south winds that come from the sea, he falls down dead, and at most has no more time than to say he burns o. Wicked men are like chaff and stubble, and they can no more resist death than either of these can resist the east wind; and they are as easily burnt up and consumed with the burning wind of God’s wrath as they are by devouring flames; and though wicked men and hypocrites may think all will be well with them if they have but time to say, Lord have mercy on us; they may be carried off with such a burning wind, or scorching disease, as to be able only to say, that they burn, and not in their bodies only, but in their souls also, feeling the wrath of God in their consciences: or this may have respect to the devouring flames of hell they are surrounded with upon dying, or immediately after death, see Isa 33:14;
and he departeth; out of the world, not willingly, but, whether he will or not, he must depart; or rather he will be bid to depart, and he will depart from the bar of God, from his presence, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:
an as a storm hurleth him out of his place: this is done either at death, when as a storm hurls a tree, or any other thing, out of its place, so is the sinner forced out of his place in a tempestuous manner, through the power and wrath of God, so that his place knows him no more; and he is hurried into hell and everlasting destruction, just as the sinning angels were hurled out of heaven, and cast down into hell, and there will be no place found in heaven for them any more; or rather this will be his case at judgment, which immediately follows, where the wicked shall not stand, or be able to justify themselves, and make their case good; but with the storm of divine wrath and vengeance shall be hurled from thence, and go, being driven, into everlasting punishment.
n Thevenot’s Travels into the Levant, par. 2. B. 1. ch. 12. p. 54. o Thevenot’s Travels into the Levant, par. 2. B. 3. ch. 5. p. 135.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
21. The east wind A storm brought on by an east wind is generally very destructive on account of its strong gusts, and it will even uproot the largest trees. (Wetzstein.) This wind, according to “The Hamasa,” is usually most violent at night. See Job 15:2.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Ver. 21. The east wind carrieth him away ] Deus subito et severo suo iudicio (Lavat.). God, by his sudden and severe judgment, hurrieth him hence to the place of torment, without the least hope of ever either mending or ending.
And he departeth
And as a storm hurleth him
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
east wind: Jer 18:17, Hos 13:15
a storm: Exo 9:23-25, Psa 11:6, Psa 58:9, Psa 83:15, Nah 1:3-8, Mat 7:27
Reciprocal: Psa 90:5 – Thou Psa 103:16 – the wind Eze 13:11 – there shall Rev 12:8 – their
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 27:21-22. The east wind Some terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east wind, which, in those parts, was most vehement, furious, pestilential, and destructive; carrieth him away Out of his place, as it follows; out of his stately mansion, where he expected to dwell for ever; whence he shall be carried, either by an enemy or by death. For God shall cast upon him His darts or plagues, one after another and not spare That is, shall show no pity or mercy to him when he crieth to him for it. As there is no Hebrew for God, we may attribute this power to the storm occasioned by the east wind. For, if the tempest, Job 27:20, steals him away, according to the same kind of phraseology, the storm may be said to cast itself upon him, and not spare. He would fain flee out of his hand That is, Gods hand, or from the power and violence of the storm. He earnestly desires and endeavours, by all possible ways, to escape the judgments of God, but in vain. Those that will not be persuaded to flee to the arms of divine grace, which are now 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.