Job 30:14

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

15I have been reduced to nothing. You have taken away my desire like a wind, and my health has passed by like a cloud.

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Cross References

Job 22:16These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.

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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