Job 30:13

13 They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.

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 Because God has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face.

12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

13 They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.

14 They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity.

15 They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.