Teks -- Job 30:22 (NET)

30:22 You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Job 30:22 - Thou

Thou exposest me, to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air.

Wesley: Job 30:22 - Substance

By which, my body is almost consumed, and my heart is melted within me.

JFB: Job 30:16-23

Job's outward calamities affect his mind.

JFB: Job 30:16-23 - poured out

In irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).

JFB: Job 30:22 - liftest . . . to wind

As a "leaf" or "stubble" (Job 13:25). The moving pillars of sand, raised by the wind to the clouds, as described by travellers, would happily depict Job's agitated spirit, if it be to them that he alludes.

JFB: Job 30:22 - dissolvest . . . substance

The marginal Hebrew reading (Keri), "my wealth," or else "wisdom," that is, sense and spirit, or "my hope of deliverance." But the text (Chetib) is better: Thou dissolvest me (with fear, Exo 15:15) in the crash (of the whirlwind; see on Job 30:14) [MAURER]. UMBREIT translates as a verb, "Thou terrifiest me."

Clarke: Job 30:22 - Thou liftest me up to the wind

Thou liftest me up to the wind - Thou hast so completely stripped me of all my substance, that I am like chaff lifted up by the wind; or as a straw, the sport of every breeze; and at last carried totally away, being dissipated into particles by the continued agitation.

TSK: Job 30:22 - liftest me // to ride // substance

liftest me : Job 21:18; Psa 1:4; Isa 17:13; Jer 4:11, Jer 4:12; Eze 5:2; Hos 4:19, Hos 13:3

to ride : Psa 18:10, Psa 104:3

substance : or, wisdom

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 30:22 - Thou liftest me up to the wind // To ride upon it

Thou liftest me up to the wind thou dost not suffer me to rest or lie still for a moment, but disquietest me, and exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air, without the least stop or hinderance.

To ride upon it i.e. to be carried and hurried about by it. By this restlessness, and the vehemency of these winds, my body is almost consumed and wasted, and my heart is melted within me.

Haydock: Job 30:22 - Dashed me

Dashed me in pieces, as if I had been raised so high for that purpose. Hebrew, "thou hast dissolved my substance," wisdom, &c. The signification of tushiova (Haydock) is very indeterminate, chap. v. 12. (Calmet) ---

"Thou hast cast me far away from salvation." (Septuagint and Theodotion) (Haydock)

Gill: Job 30:22 - Thou liftest me up to the wind // thou causest me to ride upon it // and dissolvest my substance

Thou liftest me up to the wind,.... Of affliction and adversity, to be carried up with it, and tossed about by it, as chaff or stubble, or a dry leaf, being no more able to stand up against it than such things are to oppose the wind; though some interpret this of God's lifting him up in his state of prosperity, in which he was very visible and conspicuous to all, and enjoyed much light and comfort; but then he raised him to such an estate, with a view to cast him down, and that his fall and ruin might be the greater; and so this is observed as a proof of his being become cruel to him:

thou causest me to ride upon it; seemingly in great pomp and state, but in great uncertainty and danger, being at best in a slippery place, in very fickle circumstances, as the event showed; or rather the sense is, that he was swiftly carried into destruction, as if he rode on the wings of the wind to it, and was hurried thither at once, as soon as he was taken up with the tempest of adversity:

and dissolvest my substance; his outward substance, his wealth and riches, his family, and the health of his body, all which as it were melted away, or were carried away as with a flood; and so as the metaphor of a tempestuous wind is used in the former clause, here that of an overflowing flood, which removed from him what seemed to be the most solid and substantial: the word is sometimes used for wisdom, and even sound wisdom, Pro 2:7; wherefore some have interpreted it of his being at his wits' end, of losing his reason and understanding, and which were at least disturbed and confounded by his afflictions; but his discourses and speeches show the contrary, and he himself denies that wisdom was driven from him, Job 6:13.