Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Parallel translations
- WEB Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
- KJV Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- NKJV Terrors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- NASB “Sudden terrors are turned upon me; They chase away my dignity like the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
- NLT I live in terror now. My honor has blown away in the wind, and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.
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Quick answer
Terrors have turned against Job, his honor is chased away like the wind, and his prosperity has vanished like a passing cloud. He laments the swift loss of dignity and security.
Overview
Job feels surrounded by dread, his former honor scattered as easily as wind disperses chaff, and his well-being dissolved like a cloud that quickly passes. The verse marks the reversal of his once-blessed life into terror and emptiness. It illustrates the fleeting nature of earthly standing and prepares us to value the unshakable honor God gives in Christ rather than the passing esteem of men.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Hos 13:3Therefore 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 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Ps 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
- Ps 55:4–5My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
- Isa 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
- Job 7:14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
- Job 9:27–28If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
- Hos 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
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