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12 At the right side of the east my wretchednesses have risen up at once; they turned upside-down my feet, and they oppressed me with their paths as with floods. (On my right side they attack me in a mob; they set my feet running, and they raise against me the ways of their destruction.)

13 They destroyed my ways; they setted treason to me, and they had the mastery; and there was none that helped me (and there was no one who helped me).

14 They felled in upon me as by a broken wall, and by (a) gate opened (and by an opened gate), and (they) were stretched forth to my wretchednesses.

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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.