Job 30:21
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
In Context
20You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
22Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
Job 10:14That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
Job 13:25Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
Job 19:6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
Job 23:6Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
Psalms 89:13\89:12\You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.
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 →