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18 They are thrust from light into darkness
    and driven out of the world.

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18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness(A)
    and is banished(B) from the world.(C)

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21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
    it sweeps them out of their place.(A)
22 It[a] hurls at them without pity;
    they flee from its[b] power in headlong flight.(B)
23 It[c] claps its[d] hands at them
    and hisses at them from its[e] place.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 27.22 Or He (that is, God)
  2. 27.22 Or his
  3. 27.23 Or He (that is, God)
  4. 27.23 Or his
  5. 27.23 Or his

21 The east wind(A) carries him off, and he is gone;(B)
    it sweeps him out of his place.(C)
22 It hurls itself against him without mercy(D)
    as he flees headlong(E) from its power.(F)
23 It claps its hands(G) in derision
    and hisses him out of his place.”(H)

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20 They are[a] like a dream when one awakes;
    on awaking you despise their phantoms.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 73.20 Cn: Heb Lord

20 They are like a dream(A) when one awakes;(B)
    when you arise, Lord,
    you will despise them as fantasies.(C)

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You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
    like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)

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Yet you sweep people away(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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