Job 30:15

Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity · Job 30:15–31
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Translations

Modern
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Traditional
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Literal
Terrors are turned over upon me; like the wind it pursues my honor, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
Latin
Redactus sum in nihilum: abstulisti quasi ventus desiderium meum, et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea.

Original

Hebrew
English
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

Notes

Terrors: See also 6:4; 7:14; compare with Psalm 88:15.

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Glossary

Book of Job God, Names of

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To The Wind of Terrors Which Pursue the Soul