Job 30:22
You lift me up to the wind and cause it to drive me along; 1 you throw me back and forth in a storm. + 30:22 Some modern versions have you dissolve me in a storm . 1
Unlocked Literal 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 changed and become cruel to me; 1 with the strength of your hand you persecute me. 1
23For I know that you will bring me to death, 1 to the house appointed for all the living. 1
Cross References
Job 21:18How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind 1 or like chaff that the storm carries away? 1
Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, 1 but are instead like the chaff that the wind drives away. 1
Psalms 104:3You lay the beams of your chambers on the clouds; 1 you make the clouds your chariot; 1 you walk on the wings of the wind. 1
Jeremiah 4:11In that time it will be said of this people and Jerusalem, “A burning wind from the plains of the desert will make its way to the daughter of my people. It will not winnow or cleanse them.
Hosea 4:19The wind will wrap her up in its wings; 1 and they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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 →