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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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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