You throw me into the whirlwind and destroy me in the storm.
Parallel translations
- WEB You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
- KJV Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
- BSB You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
- NKJV You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You spoil my success.
- NASB “You lift me up to the wind and make me ride it; And You dissolve me in a storm.
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Quick answer
Job feels lifted into the wind and driven about, dissolved in the storm. It pictures his life as helplessly tossed and destroyed by overwhelming forces.
Overview
Job describes himself as a weightless thing caught up by the wind and scattered, melted away in the tempest of his troubles. The storm imagery conveys total loss of control and stability. Ironically, God will later answer Job out of a whirlwind, transforming the storm of his suffering into the place where he meets the Lord, a pattern fulfilled when Christ stills storms and brings peace to the troubled.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
- Ps 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- Job 9:17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- Job 21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
- 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.
- Hos 4:19The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
- Ezek 5:2A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Ps 18:10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
- Jer 4:11–12At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
- Ps 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
- Isa 17:13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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