Job 30:22
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
Majority Standard Bible
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 ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
Cross References
Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
Hosea 4:19The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
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 →