Job 30:14
12 The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
- KJV
- They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- WEB
- As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
- ASV
- As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
- DARBY
- They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
- BLB
- As a wide breach they come; amid the ruin they roll on.
- ÅB
- Som gjennom en vid revne kommer de; gjennom nedstyrtende murer velter de seg fram.
- OTB
- De kommer over meg som en brist i muren;
de rykker frem i stormen. - B1930
- Som gjennem en vid revne kommer de; gjennem nedstyrtende murer velter de sig frem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:14–15
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:7–8
the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
Read in contextPsalms 18:4
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Read in contextJob 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
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