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12 These outcasts oppose me to my face.
    They send me sprawling
    and lay traps in my path.
13 They block my road
    and do everything they can to destroy me.
They know I have no one to help me.
14     They come at me from all directions.
They jump on me when I am 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.