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12 From one side, the crowd attacks me.
    They make me run away.
They are like an army that builds a road
    to come and attack me.
13 They stop me from escaping.
    They are ready to destroy me.
    They do not need anyone to help them.
14 I cannot stop them when they attack me.
    They rush forward to knock me down.

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12 On my right(A) the tribe[a] attacks;
    they lay snares(B) for my feet,(C)
    they build their siege ramps against me.(D)
13 They break up my road;(E)
    they succeed in destroying me.(F)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(G)
    amid the ruins they come rolling in.

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Footnotes

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