Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud. Treasury of Scripture Terrors Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit... Job 7:14 Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: Job 9:27,28 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself... Job 10:16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me. Psalm 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. soul. Heb. principal one. as a cloud Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you. Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud... Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away...
Context Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
15Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud. 16And now my soul is poured out on me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me. 17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat. 19He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not. 21You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me. 22You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride on it, and dissolve my substance. 23For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 24However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? 26When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. 27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. 28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 30My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat. 31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.
Darby Bible Translation
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
King James Bible
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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.
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