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

KJV
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
ESV
13 They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.
NLT
13 They block my road and do everything they can to destroy me. They know I have no one to help me.
MSG
13 They throw every kind of obstacle in my path, determined to ruin me - and no one lifts a finger to help me!
CSB
13 They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone 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 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.

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