I live in terror now. My honor has blown away in the wind, and my prosperity has vanished 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.
- BSB Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like 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.
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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, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- Ps 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
- Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
- Ps 55:4–5My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
- Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
- Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
- Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
- Job 7:14then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
- Job 10:16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
- Job 9:27–28If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
- Hos 6:4“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
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