Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 30 connects to 10 cross-references. The contrast with chapter 29 is stark: now Job is mocked by the worthless children of outcasts, abandoned by God who has become his adversary, and left to cry out in pain with no answer. He describes his wasting body …
Other Translations
Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
Cross References
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no …
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God …
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come …
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for …
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.