Job 30:22
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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 carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Read in contextPsalms 1:4
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Read in contextEzekiel 5:2
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Read in contextPsalms 18:10
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Read in contextHosea 4:19
The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Read in contextJob 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Read in contextJob 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Read in contextPsalms 104:3
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
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