Job 30:14
As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
In Context
13They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
15Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
Cross References
Job 22:16Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
Psalms 69:14\69:13\But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.
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 →