Job 27:21

“The east wind carrieth him away, etc.] Which is very strong and powerful, and carries all before it; afflictions are sometimes compared to it, (<232708>Isaiah 27:8); and here either death, accompanied with the wrath of God, which carries the wicked man, sore against his will, out of the world, from his house, his family, his friends, his possessions, and estates, and carries him to hell to be a companion with devils, and share with them in all the miseries of that dreadful state and place. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it, “a burning wind”, such as are frequent in the eastern countries, which carry a man off at once, so that he has only time at most to say, I burn, and…”

“(Job 21:18; Job 15:2; Psa 58:9).”

“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…”

“East - wind - Some terrible judgment, fitly compared to the east - wind, which in those parts was most vehement, and pernicious. Carrieth him - Out of his palace wherein he expected to dwell forever; whence he shall be carried either by an enemy, or by death. Job 27:22”

“east wind: Jer 18:17; Hos 13:15 a storm: Exo 9:23-25; Psa 11:6, Psa 58:9, Psa 83:15; Nah 1:3-8; Mat 7:27 Job 27:22”