Job 30:22
Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.
23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
Cross References
Job 21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.
Psalms 104:3who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
Jeremiah 4:11At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.
Hosea 4:19The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall 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 →