Job 30:14
As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 break up my path, they further my calamity, even men that have no helper.
Cross References
Job 22:16Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream;
Psalms 69:14(69-15) Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
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 →