Job 30:13
They prevent me from escaping, and they do not need anyone to help them (OR, there is no one to help me).
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
In Context
12◄Gangs/Groups of violent youths► attack me and force me to run away; they prepare to destroy me.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:12Now, youths who have become leaders treat my people cruelly, and women rule over my people. My people, your leaders are misleading you; they are causing you to go down the wrong road [MET].
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 →