Job 30:13

13 breaking up my path, furthering my calamity -even those who have no one to help them.

Job 30:13 Meaning and Commentary

Job 30:13

They mar my path
Hindered him in the exercise of religious duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worship of God, or to walk in the paths of holiness and righteousness; or they reproached his holy walk and conversation, and treated it with contempt, and triumphed over religion and godliness:

they set forward my calamity;
added affliction to affliction, increased his troubles by their reproaches and calumnies, and were pleased with it, as if it was profitable as well as pleasurable to them, see ( Zechariah 1:15 ) ;

they have no helper;
either no person of note to join them, and, to abet, assist, and encourage them; or they needed none, being forward enough of themselves to give him all the distress and disturbance they could, and he being so weak and unable to resist them; nor there is "no helper against them" F17; none to take Job's part against them, and deliver him out of their hands, see ( Ecclesiastes 4:1 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (wml) "adversus illos", Beza, Schmidt, Michaelis; so Noldius, p. 514.

Job 30:13 In-Context

11 For God has loosened my bowstring and humbled me; they throw off restraint in my presence.
12 At my right the street urchins attack, pushing me from place to place, besieging me with their ways of destruction,
13 breaking up my path, furthering my calamity -even those who have no one to help them.
14 They move in as through a wide gap; amid the ruin they roll on in waves.
15 Terrors tumble over me, chasing my honor away like the wind; my [hope of] salvation passes like a cloud.
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