King James Version
Job 30:15 in the King James Version says “Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. my soul: Heb. my pr...” — study this verse from Job chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. my soul: Heb. my principal one”
Job 30:15 · KJV
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity , they have no helper.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. my soul: Heb. my principal one
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“are turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“upon me they pursue”
H7291to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
“as the wind”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“as a cloud”
H5645properly, an envelope, i.e., darkness (or density, 2 chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse
“passeth away”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“and my welfare”
H3444something saved, i.e., (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
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