Job 30:22
You pick me up and blow me along in the wind; tossing me about in the whirlwind.
Free Bible Version
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
21You have turned cruel to me; you use your power to make me suffer.
23I know you're taking me to my death, to the place where all the living go.
Cross References
Job 21:18Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?
Psalms 1:4But it's not like that for the wicked! They are like chaff, blown away by the wind.
Psalms 104:3You place the roof-beams of your house in the rainclouds. You make the clouds your chariots. You ride on the wings of the wind.
Jeremiah 4:11At that time the people of Jerusalem will be told, “A burning wind from the bare hills of the desert is blowing toward Jerusalem, but not to blow away the chaff or the dust.
Hosea 4:19A wind will carry them away; they will be ashamed of their pagan worship.”
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 →