Job 30:12
The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
13They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
Cross References
Job 19:18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
Isaiah 3:5The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, 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 →