Job 30:22 (BSB)
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
Commentary on Job 30:22
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 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 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.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 30:22: 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 such things are to oppose the wind; though some interpret this of God's lifting him up in his state of prosperity, in which he was...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 30:22: liftest . . . to wind--as a "leaf" or "stubble" (Job 13:25). The moving pillars of sand, raised by the wind to the clouds, as described by travellers, would happily depict Job's agitated spirit, if it be to them that he alludes. dissolvest . . .
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 30:22: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. (p) He compares his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind.