Job 30:15
Terrors have turned on me.They chase my honor as the wind.My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
New Heart English 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
14As through a wide breach they come,in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
16"Now my soul is poured out within me.Days of affliction have taken hold on 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 shall 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 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 →