Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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 You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me; 22 you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me. 23 I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."



Cross References

Job 27:21

He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

Job 9:17

For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.

Job 21:18

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

Psalm 1:4

But this is not the case with the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 18:10

He rode upon a cherub and flew; he soared upon the wings of the wind.

Psalm 104:3

He lays the beams of his roof loft on the water above, making clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations roar like the rushing of many waters, but the LORD will rebuke them, and they will run far away, chased like chaff blown down from the mountains or like thick dust that rolls along, blown along by a wind storm.

Jeremiah 4:11-12

At that time, it will be told this people and to Jerusalem, "A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert is coming toward my people, and it's not for winnowing or cleansing.

Ezekiel 5:2

You are to burn a third of it in the middle of the city when you've finished your siege. Next, you are to take another third of it and beat it with your sword. Last, you are to scatter the remaining third to the wind, after which I'll unsheathe my sword and pursue them.

Hosea 4:19

A wind storm will carry them away in its embrace, and their sacrifices will bring them shame."

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, or like smoke from a chimney."

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