Job 30:15
Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my prosperity like the wind, And my welfare passeth away like a cloud.
Noyes Bible
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
14They come upon me as through a wide breach; Through the ruins they rush in upon me.
16And now my soul poureth itself out upon me; Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For that which I dread overtaketh me; That at which I shudder cometh upon me.
Job 7:9As the cloud dissolveth and wasteth away, So he that goeth down to the grave shall arise no more;
Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my lamentation, I will change my countenance, and take courage,
Job 31:23For destruction from God was a terror to me, And before his majesty I could do nothing.
Psalms 88:15I have been afflicted and languishing from my youth; I suffer thy terrors, and am distracted.
Isaiah 44:22I have caused thy transgressions to vanish like a cloud, And thy sins like a mist; Return to 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 →