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Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks to his companions while maintaining his innocence, describing the sudden calamity that overtakes the wicked who turn from God.
The words — יִשְׂפֹּק (yis.Pok) means “someone will clap,” and יִשְׁרֹק (yish.Rok) means “he may hiss,” denoting the violent, contemptuous reaction that drives the target from his position.
The thread — Lamentations 2:15 explicitly pairs clapping and hissing with scornful rejection, while 1 Kings 9:8 records only hissing and being appalled at a ruined structure. Proverbs 11:10 notes shouts of joy at the wicked’s destruction but contains no clapping or hissing imagery.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that the fate of the ungodly is irreversible and publicly marked by divine dismissal rather than human consolation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Cross-references
- Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- 1 Kings 9:8 And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- Proverbs 11:10 When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
- Jeremiah 19:8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Zephaniah 2:15 This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- Esther 9:22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
- Job 18:18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Micah 6:16 You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.