Job 30:21
Good News Translation
You are treating me cruelly; you persecute me with all your power.

New Revised Standard Version
You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.

Contemporary English Version
God has turned brutal,

New American Bible
You have turned into my tormentor, and with your strong hand you attack me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

become cruel.

Job 7:20,21 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself? . . .

Job 10:14-17 If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity? . . .

Job 13:25-28 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw. . . .

Job 16:9-14 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. [10] He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. . . .

Job 19:6-9 At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. . . .

Psalm 77:7-9 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again? . . .

Jeremiah 30:14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.

thy strong hand.

Job 6:9 And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Job 23:6 I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.

Psalm 89:13 Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

1 Peter 5:6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me. 21Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.…
Cross References
Job 10:3
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Job 16:9
My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. [10] He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.

Job 16:14
He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

Job 19:6
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Job 19:22
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Job 32:2
And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.

Jeremiah 30:14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.

Job 30:20
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