Christian Standard Bible
Job 30:22
22You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it; you scatter me in the storm.
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 out to you for help, but you do not answer me; when I stand up, you merely look at me. 21You have turned against me with cruelty; you harass me with your strong hand. You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it; you scatter me in the storm. 23Yes, I know that you will lead me to death — the place appointed for all who live. 24Yet no one would stretch out his hand against a ruined person when he cries out to him for help because of his distress.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:22 word by word
תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי אֶל־ר֭וּחַ תַּרְכִּיבֵ֑נִי וּ֝תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִי תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:22
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away?
- Psalms 1:4The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Jeremiah 4:11“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
- Ezekiel 5:2You are to burn a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are 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 draw a sword to chase after them.
- Hosea 4:19A wind with its wings will carry them off, and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.
- Psalms 18:10He rode on a cherub and flew, soaring on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 104:3laying the beams of his palace on the waters above, making the clouds his chariot, walking 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
In the dictionaries
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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