Job 30:10-20

10 They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
12 On my right the tribe[a] 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.
16 “And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
18 In his great power God becomes like clothing to me[b] ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
20 “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.

Cross References 23

  • 1. Job 19:19
  • 2. Numbers 12:14; S Deuteronomy 25:9; Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 26:67
  • 3. S Job 29:20
  • 4. S Genesis 12:17; S Ruth 1:21
  • 5. Job 41:13; Psalms 32:9
  • 6. Psalms 109:6; Zechariah 3:1
  • 7. S Job 18:9
  • 8. Psalms 140:4-5
  • 9. S Job 16:10; Job 19:12
  • 10. Isaiah 3:12
  • 11. S Job 10:3
  • 12. S 2 Kings 25:4
  • 13. S Job 6:4
  • 14. S Exodus 3:6; Job 10:8; Job 31:2-3,23; Job 31:23; Psalms 55:4-5
  • 15. S Job 3:25; Hosea 13:3
  • 16. S Job 3:24; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 42:4
  • 17. ver 27; S Job 9:17
  • 18. S Deuteronomy 28:35; S Job 16:16
  • 19. S Job 9:4
  • 20. Psalms 40:2; Psalms 69:2,14; Psalms 130:1; Jeremiah 38:6,22
  • 21. S Genesis 3:19; S Job 2:8
  • 22. S 1 Kings 8:52; Psalms 34:17; Proverbs 2:3; Micah 4:9
  • 23. S Job 19:7; Lamentations 3:8

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  • [b]. Hebrew; Septuagint "power he grasps my clothing"
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