KJV King James Version
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
WEB World English Bible
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
ASV American Standard Version
Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
Surrounding context — Job 30
12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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Hosea 13:3Therefore 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 6:4For 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.Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.Job 31:23For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.Psalm 88:15I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.Psalm 55:4-5My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.Job 9:27-28If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:Hosea 6:4O 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 10:16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.Job 7:9[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].Job 7:14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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