Job 30:12

Immediately, upon rising, my calamities rise up to the right. They have overturned my feet and have pressed me down along their way like waves.

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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 opened his quiver and has afflicted me, and he has placed a bridle in my mouth.

13They have diverted my journeys; they have waited to ambush me, and they have prevailed, and there was no one who might bring help.

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Cross References

Job 19:18Even the foolish have looked down on me, and, when I withdrew from them, they spoke ill of me.

Isaiah 3:5And the people will rush, man against man, and each one against his neighbor. The child shall rebel against the elder, and the ignoble 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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