Job 30:22 “You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me abo…”

Job 30:22

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

American Standard Version

Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.

Darby Translation

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.

Bible in Basic English

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

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Cross references

“liftest me”

Psalm 1:4 Job 21:18 Isaiah 17:13 Ezekiel 5:2 Hosea 4:19 Hosea 13:3

Psalm 1:4 · BSB

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Job 21:18 · BSB

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Isaiah 17:13 · BSB

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Ezekiel 5:2 · BSB

When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For…

Hosea 4:19 · BSB

The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Hosea 13:3 · BSB

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

“to ride”

Psalm 18:10 Psalm 104:3

Psalm 18:10 · BSB

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalm 104:3 · BSB

laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Also

Job 27:21 Job 9:17

Job 27:21 · BSB

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 9:17 · BSB

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

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