Job 30:22
Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
Bible in Basic English
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
21You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Cross References
Job 21:18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
Psalms 1:4The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
Psalms 104:3The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:
Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;
Hosea 4:19They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.
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 →