Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 Isaiah 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 qâdı̂ym , ventus urens , "burning wind;" the Septuagint in like manner, ́ kausōn ; 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 Psalms 58:9.
Hurleth him out of his place - Takes him entirely away, or removes him from the earth.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 27:21:
Job 27:13
Job 27:14
Psalms 58:9
Isaiah 27:8
Isaiah 28:2
Hosea 12:1
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