Job 30:13

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

In Context

12The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

14As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:12As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

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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