Christian Standard Bible
Job 30:14
14They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins.
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
12The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me. 13They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them. They 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. 16Now my life is poured out before me, and days of suffering have seized me.
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כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:14
- Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.
- Isaiah 8:7the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River — the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill 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
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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
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