15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my `sad' countenance, and be of good cheer; I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
And if `my head' exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
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Commentary on Job 30 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 30
It is a melancholy "But now' which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the other, and so did Job, that his afflictions might appear the more grievous, and consequently his case the more pitiable.
Job 30:1-14
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:-
Job 30:15-31
In this second part of Job's complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with.