Job 27:23

Easy-to-Read Version

It will make a sound like clapping hands as they run away. It will whistle at them as they run from their homes."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It claps its hands at himand scoffs at him from its place.

Hebrew Names Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

King James Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

English Standard Version
It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.

New Century Version
It will be as if the wind is clapping its hands; it will whistle at them as they run from their place.

New English Translation
It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

Amplified Bible
"People will clap their hands at him [to mock and ridicule him] And hiss him out of his place.

New American Standard Bible
"People will clap their hands at him, And will whistle at him from their places.

World English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery man shall clap their hands at him, & hisse at him out of their place.

Legacy Standard Bible
Men will clap their hands at himAnd will hiss him from his place.

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

Contemporary English Version
At last, the wind will celebrate because they are gone.

Complete Jewish Bible
[People] clap their hands at him in derision and hiss him out of his home.

Darby Translation
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

George Lamsa Translation
He shall smite him with his hand, and shall hiss against him from his dwelling place.

Good News Translation
The wind howls at them as they run, frightening them with destructive power.

Lexham English Bible
It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

Literal Translation
He shall clap His hands at him, and shall hiss him from his place.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Than clappe me their hodes at him, yee and ieast of him, whe they loke vpon his place.

American Standard Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Bible in Basic English
Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

King James Version (1611)
Men shall clap their handes at him, and shall hisse him out of his place.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then clap men their handes at hym, and hisse at him out of his place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

English Revised Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He schal streyne hise hondis on him, and he schal hisse on hym, and schal biholde his place.

Update Bible Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

New King James Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

New Living Translation
But everyone jeers at them and mocks them.

New Life Bible
Men clap their hands at him, and drive him from his place with sounds of shame.

New Revised Standard
It claps its hands at them, and hisses at them from its place.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

Revised Standard Version
It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from its place.

Young's Literal Translation
It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Men will clap their hands at him And will hiss him from his place.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ "I will teach you about God's power. I will not hide anything about God All-Powerful. ¹² But you have seen it all with your own eyes. So why do you say such useless things? ¹³ "Here is what God has planned for those who are evil. This is what cruel people will get from God All-Powerful. ¹⁴ They may have many children, but all of them will be killed in war. Or their children will not have enough to eat. ¹⁵ All those who are left will die, and the widows will not even cry for them. ¹⁶ Evil people collect silver as easily as dirt. They may have so many clothes that they are piled up like clay. ¹⁷ But their piles of clothes will be worn by those who have lived right. All that silver will be given to those who have done no wrong. ¹⁸ Evil people might build houses, but they will not last long. They will be like a spider's web or a guard's tent. ¹⁹ They might be rich when they go to bed, but when they open their eyes, all their riches will be gone. ²⁰ Terrible fears will come over them like a flood, like a storm in the night that blows everything away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

clap: Esther 9:22-25, Proverbs 11:10, Lamentations 2:15, Revelation 18:20

hiss him: 1 Kings 9:8, Jeremiah 19:8, Micah 6:16, Zephaniah 2:15

Reciprocal: Numbers 24:10 - he smote Job 34:37 - he clappeth Proverbs 10:7 - the name Jeremiah 50:13 - every Ezekiel 25:6 - thou hast Nahum 3:19 - shall

Cross-References

Genesis 27:11
But Jacob told his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man. I am not hairy like him.

Genesis 27:12
If my father touches me, he will know that I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me—he will curse me because I tried to trick him."

Genesis 27:16
She took the skins of the goats and put them on Jacob's hands and on his neck.

Hebrews 11:20
Isaac blessed the future of Jacob and Esau. He did that because he had faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Men] shall clap their hands at him,.... In a way of joy and triumph, scorn and derision, see Lamentations 2:15; either at the time of his death, being glad they are rid of him, Psalms 52:5; or rather hereafter, to all eternity, while the wrath and vengeance of God is pouring on him; and this will be done by all righteous men evermore; not pleasing themselves with the shocking scene, nor indulging any evil passion in them, from which they will be entirely free; but rejoicing in the glory of divine justice, which will be displayed in the everlasting destruction of wicked men, see Revelation 18:20; and this need not be restrained to good men only, but ascribed to angels also; for it may be rendered impersonally, "hands shall be clapped at him"; or joy be expressed on this occasion by all in heaven, angels and saints, who will all approve and applaud the divine procedure against wicked men as right and just; yea, this may express the glorying of divine justice, and its triumph in the condemnation and destruction of sinners;

and shall hiss him out of his place; from the bar and tribunal of God, where he stood and was condemned; and, as he goes to everlasting punishment, expressing abhorrence and detestation of him and his crimes, and as pleased with the righteous judgment of God upon him. Now this is the wicked man's portion, and the heritage he shall have of God at and after death, though he has been in flourishing circumstances in life; all which Job observes, to show that he was no friend nor favourer of wicked men, nor thought well of them and their ways, though he observed the prosperity they are attended with in their present state; and as for himself, he was not, and would not, be such a wicked man, and an hypocrite, on any account whatever, since he was sure he must then be miserable hereafter, to all intents and purposes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Men shall clap their hands at him - That is, they shall combine to drive him out of the world, and rejoice when he is gone. The same sentiment was also expressed by Bildad, Job 18:18 :

“He shall be driven fromm light into darkness,

And chased out of the world.”

There can be no doubt, I think, that Job alludes to that sentiment, and that his object in quoting it is to show its incorrectness. He does not indeed go into a formal reply to it in the following chapters, but he seems to consider that he had already replied to it by the statements which he had made, and which showed the incorrectness of the views which his friends had taken. He had demonstrated in the previous chapters that their main position was incorrect, and he asks (in Job 27:12 of this chapter), how it was possible that they could hold such sentiments as these, in the midst of all the facts which surrounded them? The whole current of events was against their opinion, and in the close of this chapter he enumerates the sentiments which they had advanced, which he regarded as so strange, and which he felt that he had now shown to be erroneous. In deed, they seem to have regarded themselves as confuted, for they were silent. Job had attacked and overthrown their main position, that people were treated according to their character in this life, and that consequently extraordinary sufferings were proof of extraordinary guilt, and, that being overthrown, they had nothing more to say. Having silenced them, and shown the error of the opinions which he has here enumerated, be proceeds in the following chapters to state his own views on important topics connected with the providence of God, mainly designed to show that we are not to expect fully to comprehend the reason of his dispensations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 27:23. Men shall clap their hands at him — These two verses refer to the storm, which is to sweep away the ungodly; therefore the word God, in Job 27:22, and men in this verse, should be omitted.

Ver. Job 27:22: "For it shall fall upon him, and not spare: flying from its power he shall continue to fly.

Ver. Job 27:23. It shall clap its hands against him, and hiss, וישרק veyishrok, shriek, him out of his place."

Here the storm is personified and the wicked actor is hissed and driven by it from off the stage. It seems it was an ancient method to clap the hands against and hiss a man from any public office, who had acted improperly in it. The populace, in European countries, express their disapprobation of public characters who have not pleased them in the same manner to the present day, by hisses, groans, and the like.