Job 30:15
My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
Brenton Septuagint
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
14And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
16Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.
Job 7:9I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:
Job 9:27And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
Job 31:23For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.
Psalms 88:15Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Isaiah 44:22For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and thy sin as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem 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 →