Job 30:21
You have changed me into hardness, and, with the hardness of your hand, you oppose me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
In Context
20I cry to you, and you do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.
22You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.
Cross References
Job 7:20I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?
Job 10:14If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 13:25Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
Job 19:6At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.
Job 23:6I do not want him to contend with me with much strength, nor to overwhelm me with the bulk of his greatness.
Psalms 89:13Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
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 →