Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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.

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 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack. 15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud. 16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

Cross References

Hosea 13:3

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

Isaiah 44:22

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Job 3:25

For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

Job 7:9

A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

Job 7:14

Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

Job 9:27-28

If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

Job 10:16

And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

Job 31:23

For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

Psalm 88:15

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

Hosea 6:4

O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

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