Job 30 · Verse 15

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job 30:15, King James Version

Job 30:15 in other translations

BSBTerrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
WEBTerrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
ASVTerrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
YLTHe hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
DARBYTerrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
BBEFears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
WebsterTerrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

What does Job 30:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. they--terrors. soul--rather, "my dignity" [Umbreit]. welfare--prosperity. cloud--(Job 7:9; Is 44:22).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Terrors 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 nobility, my excellence: they endeavor to destroy both my reputation and my property.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 30:15-31
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 himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 30:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הָהְפַּ֥ךְha.he.Pakhit has been turnedH2015
עָלַ֗י'a.Laion meH5921
בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹתba.La.Hotsudden terror<s>H1091
תִּרְדֹּ֣ףtir.Dofit pursuesH7291
כָּ֭רוּחַKa.Ru.achlike the windH7307
נְדִבָתִ֑יne.di.va.Tidignity myH5082
וּ֝כְעָ֗בu.khe.'Avand like a cloudH5645
עָבְרָ֥ה'a.ve.Rahit has passed awayH5674
יְשֻׁעָתִֽי\׃ye.shu.'a.Tiprosperity myH3444

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 30:15

  • Hosea 13:3

    Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • Job 6:4

    For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • Job 31:23

    For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

  • Psalms 88:15

    I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

  • Psalms 55:4-5

    My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

  • Isaiah 44:22

    I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

  • Job 3:25

    For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

  • Job 9:27-28

    If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

  • Job 7:14

    Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

  • Job 10:16

    For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

  • Hosea 6:4

    O 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 early dew it goeth away.

  • Job 7:9

    As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Terrors.
6:4; 7:14; 9:27,28; 10:16; Ps 88:15
soul. Heb. principal one. as a cloud.
Isa 44:22; Ho 6:4; 13:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 30:14

    They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Job 30:15

    Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

  • Job 30:16

    And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

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Job 30:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Hanse revuelto turbaciones sobre mí; combatieron como viento mi alma, y mi salud pasó como nube.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Des terreurs m’assaillent, elles poursuivent ma gloire comme le vent, et mon état de sûreté est passé comme une nuée.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Schrecknisse haben sich gegen mich gekehrt; sie verfolgen wie der Wind meine Würde, und mein Heil ist vorübergezogen wie eine Wolke.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Redactus sum in nihilum: abstulisti quasi ventus desiderium meum, et velut nubes pertransiit salus mea.