Job 30:15
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
World English Bible Classic
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 wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
16“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
Job 9:27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed 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 →