Job 30:15
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
Darby Translation
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 come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
16And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
Job 7:9The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,
Job 31:23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
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 →