Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
14As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job 9:27If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',
Job 31:23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.
Psalms 88:15(88-16) I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return unto Me, for I have redeemed 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 →