Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 30:15
Verse 15. Terrors are turned upon me ] Defence is no longer useful; they have beat down my walls. They pursue my soul as the wind ] I seek safety in flight, my strong holds being no longer tenable; but they pursue me so swiftly, that it is impossible for me to escape. They follow me like a whirlwind; and as fast as that drives away the clouds before it, so is my prosperity destroyed.
The word ytbdn nedibathi, which we translate my soul, signifies properly my nobility, my excellence: they endeavour to destroy both my reputation and my property.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-31 - Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptation join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, an is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees tha death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring his to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a fathe pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfull praise redeeming love __________________________________________________________________
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