Job 30:13

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

In Context

12On my right hand, the young brood rose up,—My feet, they thrust aside, and cast up against me their earthworks of destruction;

14As through a wide breach, came they on, with a crashing noise, they rolled themselves along.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:12My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them,—My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed,

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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