American Standard Version
Job 30:15
15Terrors are turned upon me;They chase mine honor as the wind;And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- New International Version (NIV)Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Terrors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Context of Job 30:15
13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper. 14As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me. Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. 16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And thepainsthat gnaw me take no rest.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:15 word by word
הָהְפַּ֥ךְ עָלַ֗י בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹת תִּרְדֹּ֣ף כָּ֭רוּחַ נְדִבָתִ֑י וּ֝כְעָ֗ב עָבְרָ֥ה יְשֻׁעָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 30:15
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Job 7:14Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:
- Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;
- Job 10:16And ifmy head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
- Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
- Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
- Hosea 6:4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Commentaries on Job 30:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Terrors are turned upon me - Defence is no longer useful; they have beat down my walls. They pursue my soul as the wind - I seek safety in flight, my strong holds being no longer tenable; but they pursue me so swiftly, that it is impossible for me to escape. They follow me like a whirlwind; and as fast as that drives away the clouds before it, so is my prosperity destroyed. The word נדבתי nedibathi, which we translate my soul, signifies properly my…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Terrors are turned upon me - As if they were all turned upon him, or made to converge toward him. Everything suited to produce terror seemed to have a direction given it toward him. Umbreit, and some others, however, suppose that God is here referred to, and that the meaning is,” God is turned against me terrors drive as a storm against me.” The Hebrew will bear either construction; but it is more emphatic and impressive to suppose it means that…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. 15Terrors: See also 6:4; 7:14; compare with Psalm 88:15.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. they--terrors. soul--rather, "my dignity" [Umbreit]. welfare--prosperity. cloud--(Job 7:9; Is 44:22).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
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