Job 30:12

On my right hand, the young brood rose up,—My feet, they thrust aside, and cast up against me their earthworks of destruction;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, my girdle, he had loosened and had humbled me, therefore, the bridle—in my presence, cast they off;

13They brake up my path,—My engulfing ruin, they helped forward, unaided;

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Cross References

Job 19:18Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;

Isaiah 3:5And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend,—And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,

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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