Job 30:22
Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
In Context
21Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.
23For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Cross References
Job 21:18that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalms 104:3who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind,
Jeremiah 4:11At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse,
Hosea 4:19The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →