Job 30:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.”
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“You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to rideupon it; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest--Thou levellest me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 30:22 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalms 18:10He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Isaiah 17:13The 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.
- Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
- Ezekiel 5:2When 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 I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Hosea 4:19The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
- 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.
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