New Living Translation
Job 30:14
14They come at me from all directions. They jump on me when I am down.
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
12These outcasts oppose me to my face. They send me sprawling and lay traps in my path. 13They block my road and do everything they can to destroy me. They know I have no one to help me. They 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. 16“And now my life seeps away. Depression haunts my days.
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 in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death entangled me; floods of destruction swept over me.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mud; don’t let me sink any deeper! Save me from those who hate me, and pull me from these deep waters.
- Isaiah 8:7Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels
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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