Job 27:20

Modern

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Traditional

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Literal

Terrors overwhelm him like waters; in the night a tempest steals him away.

Latin

Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia: nocte opprimet eum tempestas.

Hebrew

English

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.

Job 15:21
Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
2 Kings 19:35
And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
Job 21:18
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Job 20:23
When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
Exodus 12:29
Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Job 34:20
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
Psalm 69:14–15
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.