22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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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