Job 30:22

Job 30:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
• New International Version (NIV)You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You spoil my success.

Context of Job 30:22

20I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me. 21You have become harsh and cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me. You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it]; And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm. 23For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living. 24“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help?

Job 30:22 word by word

תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי אֶל־ר֭וּחַ תַּרְכִּיבֵ֑נִי וּ֝תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִי תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou liftest me upנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: raiseH5375
• to the windרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• thou causest me to rideרָכַבrâkab · to rideH7392
• and dissolvestמוּגmûg · to meltH4127
• my substanceשָׁוָהshâvâh · stormH7738
• my substanceתּוּשִׁיָּהtûshîyâh tûshîyâh · wisdomH8454

Cross-references for Job 30:22

• Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?
• Psalms 1:4The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so, But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.
• Isaiah 17:13The nations roar on like the roaring of many waters, But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before the storm.
• Jeremiah 4:11In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the wilderness [comes at My command] against the daughter of My people—not [a wind] to winnow and not to cleanse [from chaff, as when threshing, but]
• Ezekiel 5:2You shall burn one third with fire in the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.
• Hosea 4:19The wind [of God’s relentless wrath] has wrapped up Israel in its wings, And [in captivity] they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices [to calves, to sun, to moon, to stars, and to pagan gods].
• Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be [swiftly dissipated] like the morning cloud Or like dew which soon disappears, Like chaff which swirls with the whirlwind from the threshing floor, And like smoke from the chimney or through the window [worthless and without substance —they will vanish].
• Psalms 18:10And He rode upon a cherub (storm) and flew; And He sped on the wings of the wind.
• Psalms 104:3Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament], Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,

Commentaries on Job 30:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Thou liftest me up to the wind - Thou hast so completely stripped me of all my substance, that I am like chaff lifted up by the wind; or as a straw, the sport of every breeze; and at last carried totally away, being dissipated into particles by the continued agitation.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Thou liftest me up to the wind - The sense here is, that he was lifted up as stubble is by a tempest, and driven mercilessly along. The figure of riding upon the wind or the whirlwind, is common in Oriental writers, and indeed elsewhere. So Milton says, “They ride the air in whirlwind.” So Addison, speaking of the angel that executes the commands of the Almighty, says, “Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.” Coverdale renders this verse, “In…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22Job felt like he was caught in a storm and blown around like useless "straw" or "chaff" (9:17; 21:18; 27:21; Psalm 1:4; Isaiah 17:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2316-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary