Job 30:15
Terrors have turned their face against me; they chase like the wind my glory: and like a cloud is my happiness passed away.
Leeser Tanakh
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 broad breach they come: amidst a loud noise they rolled themselves along.
16And now my soul is poured out over me; the days of affliction have seized on me;
Cross References
Job 3:25Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.
Job 7:9As the cloud vanisheth and passeth away: so will he that goeth down to the nether world not come up again.
Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sorrowful countenance, and recover my cheerfulness:
Job 31:23For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.
Psalms 88:15(88:16) I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a vapor, 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 →