Job 30:13

They 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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In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Immediately, upon rising, my calamities rise up to the right. They have overturned my feet and have pressed me down along their way like waves.

14They have rushed upon me, as when a wall is broken or a gate opened, and they have been pulled down into my miseries.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:12As for my people, their oppressors have despoiled them, and women have ruled over them. My people, who call you blessed, the same are deceiving you and disrupting the path of your steps.

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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