Job 30:15
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Berean Standard Bible
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 advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
Job 9:27If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
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 →