Job 30:22
You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 changed me into hardness, and, with the hardness of your hand, you oppose me.
23I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.
Cross References
Job 21:18They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
Psalms 1:4Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.
Psalms 104:3Be praised in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
Jeremiah 4:11“In that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: ‘A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert, along the way of the daughter of my people, but not to winnow and not to cleanse.’
Hosea 4:19The wind has fastened them to its wings, and they will be confounded because of their sacrifices.
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 →