Job 30:14

Job 30:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
• New International Version (NIV)They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
• English Standard Version (ESV)As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They come as broad breakers; Under the ruinous storm they roll along.

Context of Job 30:14

12Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. 13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper. As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me. 15Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. 16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Job 30:14 word by word

כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

• wideרָחָבrâchâb · broad: wideH7342
• breachפֶּ֫רֶץperets · breachH6556
• comeאָתָה'âthâh 'âthâ' · to comeH857
• rollגָּלַלgâlal · to rollH1556

Cross-references for Job 30:14

• Job 22:16Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
• Psalms 18:4The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
• Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
• Isaiah 8:7now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;

Commentaries on Job 30:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14They came upon me as a wide breaking in - They storm me on every side. In the desolation they rolled themselves - When they had made the breach, they rolled in upon me as an irresistible torrent. There still appears to be an allusion to a besieged city: the sap, the breach, the storm, the flight, the pursuit, and the slaughter. See the following verse, Job 30:15; (note).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14They came upon me as a wide breaking-in of waters - The Hebrew here is simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the reference may be, not to an inundation, as our translators supposed, but to an irruption made by a foe through a breach made in a wall. When such a wall fell, or when a breach was made in it, the besieging army would pour in in a tumultuous manner, and cut down all before them; compare Isaiah 30:13. This seems to be the idea here. The…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-14The series of images here shows a military attack on a city with strong defenses. Job had already used this image to describe God's attack on him (Job 19:10–12). The word translated as snares might refer to ramps raised against a city's walls. A siege ramp was a large sloped structure of earth and stones that armies built against city walls. These ramps allowed attacking soldiers to climb up to the top of the walls during a battle.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. waters--(So 2Sa 5:20). But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12, 13. "They came [upon me] as through a wide breach," namely, made by the besiegers in the wall of a fortress (Is 30:13) [Maurer]. in the desolation--"Amidst the crash" of falling masonry, or "with a shout like the crash" of, &c.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Dissolve
• Prevent
• Profit
• Thief
• Job, Book of
• Ruin

Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary