Job 30 · Verse 22

Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Job 30:22, King James Version

Job 30:22 in other translations

BSBYou snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
WEBYou lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
ASVThou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
YLTThou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest--Thou levellest me.
DARBYThou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
BBELifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
WebsterThou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

What does Job 30:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:16-23

16-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Thou 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.

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…

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Job 30:22 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.

תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִיti.sa.'E.niyou lift up meH5375
אֶל\־'el-toH413
ר֭וּחַRu.ach[the] windH7307
תַּרְכִּיבֵ֑נִיtar.ki.Ve.niyou make ride meH7392
וּ֝תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִיu.te.mo.ge.Ge.niand you dissolve meH4127
תּוּשִׁיָּֽה\׃te.shu.vehsuccessH8454

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

Cross references for Job 30:22

  • Job 27:21

    The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

  • Psalms 1:4

    The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

  • Ezekiel 5:2

    Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

  • Psalms 18:10

    And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

  • Hosea 4:19

    The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

  • Job 9:17

    For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • Job 21:18

    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • Psalms 104:3

    Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

  • Isaiah 17:13

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • Jeremiah 4:11-12

    At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
liftest me.
21:18; Ps 1:4; Isa 17:13; Jer 4:11,12; Eze 5:2; Ho 4:19; 13:3
to ride.
Ps 18:10; 104:3
substance. or, wisdom.

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Context

  • Job 30:21

    Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

  • Job 30:22

    Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

  • Job 30:23

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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Job 30:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Levantásteme, é hicísteme cabalgar sobre el viento, y disolviste mi sustancia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu m’enlèves sur le vent, tu fais qu’il m’emporte, et tu dissous ma substance.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du hebst mich empor auf den Wind, du lässest mich dahinfahren und zerrinnen im Sturmgetöse.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Elevasti me, et quasi super ventum ponens; elisisti me valide.