Job 30:13

13 They break up my road and work to destroy me, and no one helps me.

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 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 30:13 In-Context

11 God has taken away my strength and made me suffer, so they attack me with all their anger.

12 On my right side they rise up like a mob. They lay traps for my feet and prepare to attack me.

13 They break up my road and work to destroy me, and no one helps me.

14 They come at me as if through a hole in the wall, and they roll in among the ruins.

15 Great fears overwhelm me. They blow my honor away as if by a great wind, and my safety disappears like a cloud.