15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-31)In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…
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