Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me. 15 "Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud. 16 Therefore is my mind poured full of heaviness, and the days of trouble have taken hold upon me.

Cross References

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, and like as dust that the wind taketh away from the floor, and as smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

Isaiah 44:22

As for thine offenses, I drive them away like the clouds, and thy sins as the mist. Turn ye again unto me, and I will deliver thee.

Job 3:25

For the thing that I feared is come upon me: and the thing that I was afraid of, is happened unto me.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

Job 7:9

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

Job 7:14

then troublest thou me with dreams - and makest me so afraid through visions

Job 9:27-28

When I am purposed to forget my complainings, to change my countenance, and to comfort myself;

Job 10:16

Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.

Job 31:23

For I have ever feared the vengeance and punishment of God, and knew very well that I was not able to bear his burden.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is heavy within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

Psalm 88:15

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

Hosea 6:4

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, how shall I entreat thee? Seeing your love is like a morning cloud, and like a dew that goeth early away.

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