Job 30:15
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
Young's Literal Translation
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 a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
Cross References
Job 3:25For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.
Job 7:9Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
Job 9:27Though I say, 'I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'
Job 31:23For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.
Psalms 88:15I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors — I pine away.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as [by] 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 →