15 Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul
15 Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
15 Terrors assault me - my dignity in shreds, salvation up in smoke.
15 Terrors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
15 I live in terror now. My honor has blown away in the wind, and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 30:15
Commentary on Job 30:15-31
(Read Job 30:15-31)
Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.