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12 They attack me on my right side.
    They knock my feet out from under me.
    They build ramps to attack and destroy me like a city.
13 They guard the road so that I cannot escape.
    They succeed in destroying me, without help from anyone.
14 They break a hole in the wall and come rushing through it,
    and the crashing rocks fall on me.

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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.