Job 30:15
Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
In Context
16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
Cross References
Job 3:25For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
Job 7:9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
Job 9:27If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
Job 31:23For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
Psalms 88:15\88:14\Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
Isaiah 44:22I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →