Tree of Life Version
Job 30:22
22You lift me up on the wind and make me ride on it; You toss me about 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
20“I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You only look at me. 21You have turned on me cruelly; You attack me with the might of Your hand. You lift me up on the wind and make me ride on it; You toss me about in the storm. 23For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living. 24Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out His hand, and in his distress cry for help?
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 21:18How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so. For they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.
- Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren hills in the wilderness blows toward My people, but not to winnow or to sift—
- Ezekiel 5:2A third you will burn in fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are complete. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Hosea 4:19A wind will wrap her up in its wings. They will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like dew passing away early, like chaff blown from the threshing-floor, or like smoke from a chimney.
- Psalms 18:10He parted the heavens and came down, with thick darkness under His feet.
- Psalms 104:3laying beams for His upper rooms in waters, 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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