Bible Strands
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks from his own affliction, describing how hostile forces breach his defenses like an army rolling through ruins.
The words — The Hebrew תִּרְדֹּף (tir.Dof) means "it pursues" or "drives away," paired with בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹת (ba.La.Hot) for "sudden terrors" that strip his נְדִבָתִ֑י (ne.di.va.T/i), his "dignity."
The thread — The imagery of vanished prosperity parallels Hosea 13:3’s description of mist and chaff that disappear, while the theme of arrayed terrors aligns with Job 6:4 and Job 31:23.
Why it lands — The text records the sudden loss of status and security without supplying a moral cause, demanding the reader confront the reality of unexplained affliction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Cross-references
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 31:23 For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
- Psalms 55:4 My heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
- Psalms 88:15 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Job 3:25 For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Job 7:9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
- Job 7:14 then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- Job 9:27 If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’