Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
Darby Translation
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
21Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
Cross References
Job 21:18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalms 104:3Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
Jeremiah 4:11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind [cometh] from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.
Hosea 4:19The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed 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 →