Job 30:13

Job 30:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
• New International Version (NIV)They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no helper.

Context of Job 30:13

11Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. 12The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me. They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them. 14They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins. 15Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

Job 30:13 word by word

נָתְס֗וּ נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י לְהַוָּתִ֥י יֹעִ֑ילוּ לֹ֖א עֹזֵ֣ר לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They marנָתַסnâthas · to breakH5420
• my pathנְתִיבָהnâthîyb nethîybâh nethibâh · pathH5410
• they set forwardיָעַלya‛al · to gainH3276
• my calamityהַיָּהhayâh · calamityH1962
• my calamityהַוָּהhavvâh · desireH1942
• they have no helperעָזַר‛âzar · to helpH5826

Cross-references for Job 30:13

• Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one you struck and talk about the pain of those you wounded.
• Zechariah 1:15I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease, for I was a little angry, but they made the destruction worse.

Commentaries on Job 30:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13They mar my path - They destroy the way-marks, so that there is no safety in travelling through the deserts, the guide-posts and way-marks being gone. These may be an allusion here to a besieged city: the besiegers strive by every means and way to distress the besieged; stopping up the fountains, breaking up the road, raising up towers to project arrows and stones into the city, called here raising up against it the ways of destruction, Job 30:12…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13They mar my path - They break up all my plans. Perhaps here, also, the image is taken from war, and Job may represent himself as on a line of march, and he says that this rabble comes and breaks up his path altogether. They break down the bridges, and tear up the way, so that it is impossible to pass along. His plans of life were embarrassed by them, and they were to him a perpetual annoyance. They set forward my calamity - Luther renders this part of 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. 1313. Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by which succor might reach me. set forward--(Zec 1:15). they have no helper--Arabic proverb for contemptible persons. Yet even such afflict Job.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Dissolve
• Prevent
• Profit
• Thief
• Calamity
• Forward; Forwardness
• Job, Book of
• Mar

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