Job 30:15 Meaning and Explanation
“Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Terrors round upon Job and chase his soul like wind, while his prosperity drifts off and vanishes like a cloud.
What Does Job 30:15 Mean?
Job names the inner dimension of his ruin. "Terrors are turned upon me," wheeling round to face him; his dignity is hunted away "as the wind" scatters; and his "welfare," his security and prosperity, dissolves "as a cloud" that thins and disappears. Everything that gave him standing is slipping from his grasp.
The cloud that passes is one of Scripture's truest images of how quickly earthly good can fade. Job had wealth, honor, and health, and watched them vanish. The lesson is not despair but reorientation: what blows away like wind was never the soul's true treasure. The believer is drawn to lay hold of what cannot pass, the steadfast love of the Lord, which alone remains when every cloud of fortune has melted into the sky.
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What does Job 30:15 mean?
Terrors round upon Job and chase his soul like wind, while his prosperity drifts off and vanishes like a cloud.