Job 30:12

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

In Context

11For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

13They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

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Cross References

Job 19:18Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

Isaiah 3:5And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15

Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →

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