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12 This mob attacks me head-on;
    they send me running; they prepare their final assault.
13 They cut off my escape and try to destroy me;
    and there is no one to stop[a] them.
14 They pour through the holes in my defenses
    and come crashing down on top of me;

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  1. Job 30:13 Probable text stop; Hebrew help.

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