Job 30:22
20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
21 You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
23 Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
24 Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
- KJV
- Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
- WEB
- You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
- ASV
- Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
- DARBY
- Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
- BLB
- You lift me up to the wind and make me ride [it], You toss me about in the storm.
- ÅB
- Du løfter meg opp i stormen, du lar meg fare avsted, og du lar meg forgå i dens brak;
- OTB
- Du løfter meg opp til vinden og lar meg ri på den,
og Du sprer meg i stormen. - B1930
- Du løfter mig op i stormen, du lar mig fare avsted, og du lar mig forgå i dens brak;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Read in contextPsalms 1:4
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Read in contextEzekiel 5:2
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
Read in contextPsalms 18:10
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
Read in contextHosea 4:19
The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
Read in contextJob 9:17
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Read in contextJob 21:18
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Read in contextPsalms 104:3
laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
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