Job 30:12
The rabble rise up against me, they send me running; like a city under siege they devise ways to destroy me.
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11God has made my bowstring loose and humbled me.
13They cut off my way of escape; they bring about my downfall and do this without anyone's help.
Cross References
Job 19:18Even young children despise me; when I stand up they ridicule me.
Isaiah 3:5People will mistreat one another, person against person, neighbor against neighbor; the young will assault the old, and the dregs of society will attack those who are reputable.
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 →