English Standard Version
Job 30:14
14As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They come as broad breakers; Under the ruinous storm they roll along.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They come at me from all directions. They jump on me when I am down.
Context of Job 30:14
12On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. 13They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them. As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. 15Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. 16"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:14 word by word
כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:14
- Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
- Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;
- Psalms 69:14Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
- Isaiah 8:7therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise 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
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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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