Job 30:13

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 God has made my body weak. It's like a tent that has fallen down. So those children do what they want to in front of me.

12 Many people attack me on my right side. They lay traps for my feet. They come at me from every direction.

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

14 They attack me like troops smashing through a wall. Among the destroyed buildings they come rolling in.

15 Terrors sweep over me. My honor is driven away as if by the wind. My safety vanishes like a cloud.