Job 30:22,23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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. And dissolvest my substance By which my body is almost consumed, and my heart is melted within me. I know that thou wilt bring me to death Rather, I verily know, or am persuaded, that by these lingering and painful disorders thou art gradually bringing me to death; the house appointed for all living The grave, to which all living men are hastening. The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house, but there we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our mother's lap, and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is a house appointed for us by him that has appointed the bounds of all our habitations. And it is appointed for all living. It is the common receptacle for rich and poor; we must all be brought thither, and that shortly.

Job 30:22-23

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

23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.