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15 Terrors are turned loose[a] on me;
they drive away[b] my honor like the wind,
and as a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:15 tn The passive singular verb (Hophal) is used with a plural subject (see GKC 388 §121.b).
  2. Job 30:15 tc This translation assumes that “terrors” (in the plural) is the subject. Others emend the text in accordance with the LXX, which has, “my hope is gone like the wind.”

15 Terrors(A) overwhelm me;(B)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.(C)

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