15 Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
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.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.
For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up, I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
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Commentary on Job 30 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 30
It is a melancholy "But now' which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the other, and so did Job, that his afflictions might appear the more grievous, and consequently his case the more pitiable.
Job 30:1-14
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:-
Job 30:15-31
In this second part of Job's complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with.