Job 27:23

21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
KJV
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
WEB
Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
ASV
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
DARBY
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
BLB
It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from his place.
ÅB
Folk klapper i hendene og håner ham og piper ham bort fra hans sted.
[^1]: det han eide.
OTB
Folk vil klappe i hendene mot ham,
Og vil hysje på ham fra sine steder.
B1930
Folk klapper i hendene og håner ham og piper ham bort fra hans sted.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Lamentations 2:15

    All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

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  • 1 Kings 9:8

    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

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  • Proverbs 11:10

    When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

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  • Jeremiah 19:8

    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

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  • Zephaniah 2:15

    This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

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  • Esther 9:22–25

    as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

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  • Micah 6:16

    You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

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  • Job 18:18

    He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

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