Job 30:15

I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.

16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

Job 7:9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Job 9:27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Job 31:23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.

Psalms 88:15Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to 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 →

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