Job 30:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.f ”

Job 30:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou liftest me up to the wind - The sense here is, that he was lifted up as stubble is by a tempest, and driven mercilessly along. The figure of riding upon the wind or the whirlwind, is common...
Job 30:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou liftest me up to the (p) wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. (p) He compares his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind.
Job 30:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30. Job's Present Misery. As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2-8 as a misplaced s...
Job 30:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

my substance. See note on "sound wisdom", Proverbs 2:7 .
Job 30:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it , and dissolvest my substance. Thou liftest me up to the wind - Thou hast so completely stripped me of all my substance, that I am lik...
Job 30:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou liftest me up to the wind— Thou liftest me up: thou causest me to ride upon the wind; nay, thou dissolvest my very existence. Heath. Houbigant renders the last clause, But salvation shall n...
Job 30:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. Poured out - in irrepressible complaints ( Psalms 42:4 ; J...
Job 30:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Present Misery Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29 . It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains tha...
Job 30:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou liftest me up to the wind. — Some render this verse, “Thou liftest me up to the wind, and causest me to ride upon it; Thou dissolvest me in thy blast;” others understand him to express the con...
Job 30:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Job 30:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
Job 30:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. (21) Thou art become cruel to me: with...
Job 30:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou liftest me up to the wind ,.... Of affliction and adversity, to be carried up with it, and tossed about by it, as chaff or stubble, or a dry leaf, being no more able to stand up against it than...
Job 30:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. Ver. 22. Thou liftest me up to the wind ] Thou whifflest and wherriest me about as chaff or thistle...
Job 30:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou liftest me up to the wind Thou exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities, so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air....
Job 30:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest clas...
Job 30:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
Job 30:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou dost not suffer me to rest or lie still for a moment, but disquietest me, and exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stub...
Job 30:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for com...
Job 30:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:1 . The dogs of my flock. Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15 . He says it rather with a view to describe th...
Job 30:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 30:1-18 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Jo...
Job 30:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Job 30:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 5:2 ; Hosea 13:3 ; Hosea 4:19 ; Isaiah 17:13 ; Jeremiah 4:11 ; Jeremiah 4:12 ; Job 21:18 ; Psalms 1:4 ; Psalms 104:3 ; Psalms 18:10
Job 30:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thou — Thou exposest me, to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. Substance — By which, m...

Job 30:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 30:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 30:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 30:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes