Job 30:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Terrors, to wit, from God, who sets himself against me, and in some sort joins his forces with these miscreants. Are turned upon me; are directed against me, to whom they seem not to belong, as being the portion of wicked men. My soul, Heb. my principal or excellent one, i.e. my soul, which is fitly so called, as being the chief part of man; as it is called a man's glory, Genesis 49:6, and his only one, Psalms 22:20, and which is the proper seat and object of Divine terrors, as his body was of his outward pains and ulcers. As the wind, i.e. speedily, vehemently, and irresistibly. My welfare; all the happiness and comfort of any life. As a cloud; which is quickly dissolved into rain, or dissipated by the sun, or driven away with the wind.

Job 30:15

15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my sould as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.