Job 30:22 Meaning and Explanation
“Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job feels swept up by God onto the wind and tossed about, his very being dissolving in the storm.
What Does Job 30:22 Mean?
The imagery grows violent and dizzying. Job feels lifted "up to the wind," made to ride the storm, and then "dissolvest my substance," melted away, his solidity undone. He is like a thing snatched aloft and scattered by the tempest, with nothing firm left to stand on.
To be borne up by the wind and dissolved is to lose all sense of ground and self, tossed beyond one's own control. Job feels at the mercy of forces that unmake him. Yet the same wind that scatters is the breath that the Lord commands, and the storm that dissolves a man's strength is still within God's hand. The believer learns that even when swept beyond every certainty, he is not beyond the One who rides upon the wings of the wind and gathers what the storm has scattered.
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What does Job 30:22 mean?
Job feels swept up by God onto the wind and tossed about, his very being dissolving in the storm.