Job 30:21
Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.
22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
Cross References
Job 7:20I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?
Job 10:14If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 13:25Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
Job 19:6At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.
Job 23:6I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
Psalms 89:13the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:
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 →