Job 30:12
On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
13They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'
Cross References
Job 19:18Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
Isaiah 3:5And the people hath exacted — man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
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 →