Job 30:21
You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
In Context
20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?
Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Job 23:6Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
Psalms 89:13Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
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 →