“Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.”
You lift me up to the wind and make me ride it; and you dissolve me in the tempest, continuing the depiction of divine action against Job, suggesting that God manipulates Job like the wind manipulates objects. The lifting up and making ride the wind suggests Job's complete subjection to divine force. The dissolving in tempest suggests Job's being broken apart by divine violence. The verse portrays God as the force that destroys Job.
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