Job 30:15

I have been reduced to nothing. You have taken away my desire like a wind, and my health has passed by like a cloud.

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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

14They have rushed upon me, as when a wall is broken or a gate opened, and they have been pulled down into my miseries.

16But now my soul withers within myself, and the days of affliction take hold of me.

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Cross References

Job 3:25for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.

Job 7:9Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.

Job 9:27If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.

Job 31:23For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.

Psalms 88:15Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.

Isaiah 44:22I have wiped away your iniquities like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, because I have redeemed you.

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 →

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