Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

New American Standard Bible

Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

King James Version

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

International Standard Version

My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

A Conservative Version

Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

American Standard Version

Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

Amplified


“Terrors are turned upon me;
They chase away my honor and reputation like the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Bible in Basic English

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

Darby Translation

Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

Julia Smith Translation

Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud.

King James 2000

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my honor as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.

Modern King James verseion

Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.

NET Bible

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

New Heart English Bible

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

The Emphasized Bible

There are turned upon me terrors, - Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.

Webster

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

World English Bible

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Youngs Literal Translation

He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלּהה 
Ballahah 
Usage: 10

my soul
נדיבה 
N@diybah 
Usage: 2

as the wind
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

and my welfare
ישׁוּעה 
Y@shuw`ah 
Usage: 78

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

References

Easton

Fausets

Smith

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

14 They advance as through a gaping breach;
they keep rolling in through the ruins.
15 Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
16 Now my life is poured out before my eyes,
and days of suffering have seized me.


Cross References

Hosea 13:3

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,
like the early dew that vanishes,
like chaff blown from a threshing floor,
or like smoke from a window.

Isaiah 44:22

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,
and your sins like a mist.
Return to Me,
for I have redeemed you.

Job 3:25

For the thing I feared has overtaken me,
and what I dreaded has happened to me.

Job 6:4

Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me;
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.

Job 7:9

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

Job 7:14

then You frighten me with dreams,
and terrify me with visions,

Job 9:27-28

If I said, “I will forget my complaint,
change my expression, and smile,”

Job 10:16

If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion
and again display Your miraculous power against me.

Job 31:23

For disaster from God terrifies me,
and because of His majesty I could not do these things.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart shudders within me;
terrors of death sweep over me.

Psalm 88:15

From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

Hosea 6:4

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.

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