Job 30:15
I am very terrified; My dignity/honor has been taken away as though [SIM] it has been blown away by the wind, and my prosperity has disappeared like [SIM] clouds disappear.
Translation for Translators
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
16“And now I [SYN] am about to die [IDM]; I suffer every day.
Cross References
Job 3:25Things that I always worried might happen to me, have happened to me; things that I always dreaded have happened to me.
Job 7:9Like [SIM] clouds ◄disperse/break up► and then disappear, people die and descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return;
Job 9:27If I smile and say to God, ‘I will forget what I am complaining about; I will stop looking sad and try to be cheerful/happy,’
Job 31:23I always feared that God would cause me to experience a great disaster if I did any of those evil things, and I would not have been able to endure the powerful things that he would do to punish me.
Psalms 88:15All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am ◄in despair/very discouraged► because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
Isaiah 44:22I have gotten rid of your sins like [SIM] the wind blows away a cloud. It is as though your transgressions were a morning mist [SIM] that I have blown away. Return to me because I have rescued you.”
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 →