Job 30:12

Against my right hand rise up this swarm of worthless youths: they push away my feet, and they level against me their calamity-bringing paths.

Leeser Tanakh

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

11Because he hath loosened the cord of my bow, and afflicted me, they have also cast off the bridle before me.

13They destroy my footpath, they help forward my downfall, without any one to aid them.

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Cross References

Job 19:18Yea, children even despise me: I rise up, but they speak against me.

Isaiah 3:5And so shall the people press man against man, and one against the other: the boy shall demean himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.

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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