Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Thou liftest up me to the wind, thou carriest me away, and the storm maketh me faint;

New American Standard Bible

“You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.

King James Version

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Holman Bible

You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;
You scatter me in the storm.

International Standard Version

you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

A Conservative Version

Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.

American Standard Version

Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it ; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

Amplified


“You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it];
And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm.

Bible in Basic English

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

Darby Translation

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt lift me up to the wind; thou wilt cause me to ride, and thou wilt melt to me counsel.

King James 2000

You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and spoil my substance.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You lift me up to [the] wind--you make me ride [it], and you toss me about [in] the storm.

Modern King James verseion

You lift me up to the wind; You cause me to ride on it; and You melt me in a storm.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

In times past thou didst set me up on high, as it were above the wind, but now hast thou given me a very sore fall.

NET Bible

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

New Heart English Bible

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

Webster

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

World English Bible

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Thou liftest me up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

to the wind
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

thou causest me to ride
רכב 
Rakab 
Usage: 78

upon it, and dissolvest
מוּג 
Muwg 
Usage: 17

Context Readings

Job Calls On God For Help

21 Thou art turned to become a cruel one unto me, With the might of thy hand, thou assailest me; 22 Thou liftest up me to the wind, thou carriest me away, and the storm maketh me faint; 23 For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.



Cross References

Job 27:21

An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place;

Job 9:17

For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;

Job 21:18

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

Psalm 1:4

Not so, the lawless, - but as chaff which is driven about by the wind:

Psalm 18:10

Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, and darted on the wings of the wind;

Psalm 104:3

Building, in the waters, his upper chambers, - Who maketh clouds his chariot, Who passeth along on the wings of the wind;

Isaiah 17:13

Though nations like the rushing of many waters, shall rush, Yet shall one rebuke him, And he shall flee far away, - And be chased As the chaff of the mountains before a wind, And as whirling stubble before a storm!

Jeremiah 4:11-12

At that time, shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem, - The sharp wind of the bare heights in the desert, cometh towards the daughter of my people, - not to winnow nor to cleanse.

Ezekiel 5:2

A third part in the fire, shalt thou burn in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled, - and thou shalt take a third part, thou shalt smite it with the cuting instrument round about it, and a third part, shalt thou scatter to the wind, and sword, will I, make bare after then;

Hosea 4:19

The wind hath bound her up in its wings, - that they may be ashamed, because of their sacrifices.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore, shall they become like the morning cloud, and like the dew early departing, - like chaff storm-driven out of the threshing-floor, and like smoke out of a chimney.

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