Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

You lift me up to [the] wind--you make me ride [it], and you toss me about [in] the storm.

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.

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.

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 have turned cruel to me; you persecute me with your hand's might. 22 You lift me up to [the] wind--you make me ride [it], and you toss me about [in] the storm. 23 Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.

Cross References

Job 27:21

[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.

Job 9:17

who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Job 21:18

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

Psalm 1:4

Not so the wicked. Instead, [they are] like the chaff that [the] wind scatters.

Psalm 18:10

And he mounted a cherub and flew, and he swooped down on wings of wind.

Psalm 104:3

the one who sets beams in the waters [for] his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who rides on [the] wings of [the] wind,

Isaiah 17:13

[The] nations roar like [the] roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of [the] mountains before [the] wind and like tumbleweed before [the] storm.

Jeremiah 4:11-12

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "{A hot wind from the barren heights} in the desert, {in the direction of} the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse,

Ezekiel 5:2

A third you must burn with fire in the midst of the city at {the completion} of the days of the siege, and you must take a third, and you must strike [it] with the sword around it, and a third you must scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword behind them.

Hosea 4:19

A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their altars.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like [the] dew of early morning going [away], like chaff swirling from [the] threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.

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