Bible Strands
Job 30:22
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God directly while recounting his severe affliction, positioned between his claim of divine hostility and his acknowledgment of approaching death.
The words — The text supplies תִּשָּׂאֵ֣/נִי (ti.sa.'E./ni) as "you lift up" and ר֭וּחַ (Ru.ach) as "[the] wind."
The thread — The motif of wind-driven displacement appears in Job 27:21 and Psalms 1:4, while Job 9:17 parallels the theme of God crushing with a tempest.
Why it lands — The passage states that God actively directs violent weather against the speaker, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine agency in chaotic suffering without softening the claim.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Cross-references
- Job 27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- Psalms 1:4 Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Job 9:17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Job 21:18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalms 18:10 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 104:3 laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Isaiah 17:13 The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Jeremiah 4:11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
- Ezekiel 5:2 When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Hosea 4:19 The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.