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Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity

Job 30:15

In 11 translations

BSB
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
KJV
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.my soul: Heb. my principal one
WEB
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
ASV
Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
LSV
He has turned terrors against me, || It pursues my abundance as the wind, || And as a thick cloud, || My safety has passed away.
YLT
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
DBY
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
DRC
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.
GNV
Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.
JPS
Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
LXXE
My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

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Original-language editions

WLC
הָהְפַּ֥ךְ עָלַ֗י בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹת תִּרְדֹּ֣ף כָּ֭רוּחַ נְדִבָתִ֑י וּ֝כְעָ֗ב עָבְרָ֥ה יְשֻׁעָתִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ἐπιστρέφονταί μου αἱ ὀδύναι, ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα, καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου.

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Hosea 13:3Therefore 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.
  • Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  • Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Psalms 55:4–5My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me. Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
  • Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
  • Job 7:14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
  • Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
  • Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
  • Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
  • Job 9:27–28If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’ I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
  • Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

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