11 Because that God hath loosed my [a]cord and humbled me, [b]they have loosed the bridle before me.

12 The youth rise up at my right hand: they have pushed my feet, and have trode on me as on the [c]paths of their destruction.

13 They have destroyed my paths: they took pleasure at my calamity, they had no [d]help.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:11 God hath taken from me the force, credit, and authority wherewith I kept them in subjection.
  2. Job 30:11 He said that the young men when they saw him, hid themselves, as Job 29:8, and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious.
  3. Job 30:12 That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.
  4. Job 30:13 They need none to help them.

11 Now that God has unstrung my bow(A) and afflicted me,(B)
    they throw off restraint(C) in my presence.
12 On my right(D) the tribe[a] attacks;
    they lay snares(E) for my feet,(F)
    they build their siege ramps against me.(G)
13 They break up my road;(H)
    they succeed in destroying me.(I)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

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

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