Job 30:15 - Exposition

Terrors are turned upon me Job seems to pass here from his human persecutors to his internal sufferings of mind and body. "Terrors' take hold upon him. He experiences in his sleep horrible dreams and visions (see Job 7:14 ), and even in his waking hours he is haunted by fears. The "terrors of God do set themselves in array against him" ( Job 6:4 ). God seems to him as One that watches, and "tries him every moment" ( Job 7:18 ), seeking occasion against him, and never leaving him an instant's peace ( Job 7:19 ). These terrors, he says, pursue my soul as the wind ; literally, pursue mine honour , or my dignity. They flutter the calm composure that befits a godly man, disturb it, shake it, and for a time at any rate, cause terrors and shrinkings of soul. Under these circumstances , my welfare passeth away as a cloud . It is not only my happiness, but my real welfare, that is gone. Body and soul are equally in suffering—the one shaken with fears and disturbed with doubts and apprehensions; the other smitten with a sore disease, so that there is no soundness in it.