Job 30:13

13 They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.

Job 30:13 in Other Translations

13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

13 They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.

13 They block my road and do everything they can to destroy me. They know I have no one to help me.

13 They throw every kind of obstacle in my path, determined to ruin me - and no one lifts a finger to help me!

13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.

13 Yes, they remove all traces of my path in order to destroy me. No one is there to help me against them.

13 They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them.

13 They tear up the road I walk on. They succeed in destroying me. They do it without any help.

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 Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.

12 On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.

13 They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.

14 They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

15 Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 3:12
• 2. S Job 10:3