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

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

14 They came as a great breach of waters, and [c]under this calamity they come on heaps.

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  1. Job 30:12 That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.
  2. Job 30:13 They need none to help them.
  3. Job 30:14 By my calamity they took an occasion against me.

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.