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Job 30:22

Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance .

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thou liftest me up to the wind,.... Of affliction and adversity, to be carried up with it, and tossed about by it, as chaff or stubble, or a dry leaf, being no more able to stand up against it than…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Thou liftest me up to the wind - The sense here is, that he was lifted up as stubble is by a tempest, and driven mercilessly along. The figure of riding upon the wind or the whirlwind, is common in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 30:15-31

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…