Parallel Verses

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.

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 came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity. 15 Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Cross References

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning mist and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Isaiah 44:22

I have undone, as a cloud, thy rebellions, and thy sins, as a mist, return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Job 3:25

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

Job 7:9

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again;

Job 7:14

then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

Job 9:27-28

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself;

Job 10:16

And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.

Job 31:23

For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Psalm 88:15

I am afflicted and destitute; from my youth up I have feared thee and been in awe of thee.

Hosea 6:4

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

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