Job 30:15

Terrors are turned against me,

They chase away my honour like the wind;

And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

He is assailed by terrors. The words "like the wind" mean, like as the wind chases away (the chaff, &c.). On the figure of the dissolving cloud comp. Job 7:9. The expression "terrors" indicates that, though Job is here speaking of his injurious treatment at the hands of this rabble, it is not merely the external ignominy that fills his mind; it is the deeper moral problem which such abasement raises. Such expressions, however, have suggested to several writers that what Job describes in Job 30:11 is not the outrageous insults of the base-born outcasts referred to in Job 30:1, but his afflictions, under the figure of an assailing army sent against him from God, comp. ch. Job 16:12-14; Job 19:12. The passage is difficult, but upon the whole this view is less natural.