New Living Translation
Job 30:13
13They block my road and do everything they can to destroy me. They know I have no one to help me.
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
11For God has cut my bowstring. He has humbled me, so they have thrown off all restraint. 12These outcasts oppose me to my face. They send me sprawling and lay traps in my path. They block my road and do everything they can to destroy me. They know I have no one to help me. 14They come at me from all directions. They jump on me when I am down. 15I live in terror now. My honor has blown away in the wind, and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:13 word by word
נָתְס֗וּ נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י לְהַוָּתִ֥י יֹעִ֑ילוּ לֹ֖א עֹזֵ֣ר לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:13
- Psalms 69:26To the one you have punished, they add insult to injury; they add to the pain of those you have hurt.
- Zechariah 1:15But I am very angry with the other nations that are now enjoying peace and security. I was only a little angry with my people, but the nations inflicted harm on them far beyond my intentions.
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
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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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