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Job 27:22 Explained in Context

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Verse 22. For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

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Role in This Section

Job 27:22 advances the thought unit with the words “For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.” Job supplies a reason through “For God shall cast upon him, and not spare” in support of The Speech Repeats a Severe Portion for the Wicked.

Read It With

  • Job 27:11–27:23

Read Job 27:22 with 27:11–27:23. Read alone, “For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: The speaker offers instruction about God's hand and describes children, sword, famine, disease, lost wealth, terror, storm, and derision overtaking the wicked.

Why It Needs Context

Job 27:22 depends on 27:11–27:23; isolating “For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “The Speech Repeats a Severe Portion for the Wicked.”

Read Job 27:11–23 together

Why these verses belong together: Job 27:11–27:23 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “The Speech Repeats a Severe Portion for the Wicked.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.

Verse 11. I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

Verse 12. Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Verse 13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Verse 14. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Verse 15. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Verse 16. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Verse 17. He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Verse 18. He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Verse 19. The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Verse 20. Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Verse 21. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Verse 22. For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Verse 23. Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

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Read Job 27:11–27:23 — The Speech Repeats a Severe Portion for the Wicked
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Job 27:11–27:23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job

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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 27:11–27:23

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