Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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 become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me. 22 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. 23 Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.



Cross References

Job 27:21

A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place.

Job 9:17

He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.

Job 21:18

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

Psalm 1:4

As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.

Psalm 18:10

He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.}

Psalm 104:3

who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds thy chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.

Isaiah 17:13

Even like many waters shall the people rage: God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon a hill, and as the whirlwind through a storm.

Jeremiah 4:11-12

Then shall it be said to the people and to Jerusalem, "A strong wind in the high places of the wilderness cometh through the way of my people; but neither to fan nor to cleanse.

Ezekiel 5:2

And burn the third part thereof in the fire in the midst of the city, and cut the other third part in pieces with a knife. As for the third part that remaineth, cast it in the wind, and then show the bare knife.

Hosea 4:19

A wind shall take hold of their feathers, and they shall be confounded in their offerings.

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.

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