Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 27:21

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 27:21 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 27:21. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, this verse means that just like a strong wind can blow someone away, bad things can happen that change everything for a person. It's like when a storm comes and pushes someone out from where they were safe.

Job 27:21: The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Contradiction with Psalm 103:16

Explains how the wind passes over a place and it is no more, contrasting Job 27:21's imagery of the wind being an enduring force taking away the wicked.

Psalm 103:16: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. [it is...: Heb. it is not]

Contradiction with Isaiah 40:7

Suggests that the breath of the Lord blows upon the grass causing it to wither, unlike Job 27:21 where the east wind removes the wicked.

Isaiah 40:7: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

Contradiction with Matthew 7:25

Describes a house that withstands the winds, differing from the depiction in Job 27:21 where the east wind overwhelms the wicked.

Matthew 7:25: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Contradiction with Job 1:19

Describes a great wind destroying Job's children's house, varying from Job 27:21 where the wind's destructive power is directed at the wicked.

Job 1:19: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. [from...: Heb. from aside, etc]

Contradiction with Proverbs 10:25

States that the whirlwind passes and the wicked is no more, which differs as Job 27:21 implies a continuing force carrying the wicked away.

Proverbs 10:25: As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no [more]: but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation.
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