“The scorching wind shall carry him off, and take him away. And as a whirlwind shall carry him out of his place. Who is in this place called the 'scorching wind' but the evil spirit, who stirs up the flames of divers lusts in the heart, that he may drag it to an eternity of punishments? And so 'the scorching wind' is s…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII
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21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
— Job 27:21 —
22For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.