Job 30:15
13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
14 They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- KJV
- Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- WEB
- Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
- ASV
- Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
- DARBY
- Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
- BLB
- Terrors are turned over upon me; like the wind it pursues my honor, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
- ÅB
- Redsler har vendt seg mot meg, som stormen forfølger de min ære, og som en sky er min velferd faret bort.
- OTB
- Plutselige redsler vendes mot meg;
de forfølger min ære som vinden,
og min velstand har forsvunnet som en sky. - B1930
- Redsler har vendt sig mot mig, som stormen forfølger de min ære, og som en sky er min velferd faret bort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Read in contextJob 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Read in contextJob 31:23
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
Read in contextPsalms 88:15
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Read in contextPsalms 55:4–5
My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:22
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Read in contextJob 3:25
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Read in contextJob 9:27–28
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
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