Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
King James Version
In Context
14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 31:23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto 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 →