“After those things that used to or could move my affections in themselves have dispersed, that is, after I have been deprived of both comforts and occupations, I know that no hope is left for me through which I may be supported. "And my welfare has passed like clouds." He said that his welfare has passed—not his life—…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 30:15
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15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
— Job 30:15 —
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.