Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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 changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me. 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance. 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

Cross References

Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.

Job 9:17

He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Job 21:18

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Psalm 18:10

And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.

Psalm 104:3

Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:

Jeremiah 4:11-12

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind cometh from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.

Ezekiel 5:2

A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Hosea 4:19

The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice.

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