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Selected Verse: Job 30:14 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 30:14 |
Strong Concordance |
They came [0857] upon me as a wide [07342] breaking [06556] in of waters: in [08478] the desolation [07722] they rolled [01556] themselves upon me. |
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King James |
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
waters--(So Sa2 5:20). But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12-13. "They came [upon me] as through a wide breach," namely, made by the besiegers in the wall of a fortress (Isa 30:13) [MAURER].
in the desolation--"Amidst the crash" of falling masonry, or "with a shout like the crash" of, &c. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
They came upon me as a wide breaking-in of waters - The Hebrew here is simply, "Like a wide breach they came," and the reference may be, not to an inundation, as our translators supposed, but to an irruption made by a foe through a breach made in a wall. When such a wall fell, or when a breach was made in it, the besieging army would pour in in a tumultuous manner, and cut down all before them; compare Isa 30:13. This seems to be the idea here. The enemies of Job poured in upon him as if a breach was made in a wall. Formerly they were restrained by his rank and office, as a besieging army was by lofty walls; but now all these restraints were broken down, and they poured in upon him like a tumultuous army.
In the desolation they rolled themselves upon me - Among the ruins they rolled tumultuous along; or they came pitching and tumbling in with the ruins of the wall. The image is taken from the act of sacking a city, where the besieging army, having made a breach in the wall, would seem to come tumbling into the heart of the city with the ruins of the wall. No time would be wasted, but they would follow suddenly and tumultuously upon the breach, and roll tumultuously along. The Chaldee renders this as if it referred to the rolling and tumultuous waves of the sea, and the Hebrew would admit of such a construction, but the above seems better to accord with the image which Job would be likely to use. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Waste place - In the waste place; in that part of the bank which was broken down. They rolled - As the waters, come rolling in at the breach. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
They came upon me as a wide breaking in - They storm me on every side.
In the desolation they rolled themselves - When they had made the breach, they rolled in upon me as an irresistible torrent. There still appears to be an allusion to a besieged city: the sap, the breach, the storm, the flight, the pursuit, and the slaughter. See the following verse, Job 30:15 (note). |
13 Therefore this iniquity [05771] shall be to you as a breach [06556] ready to fall [05307], swelling out [01158] in a high [07682] wall [02346], whose breaking [07667] cometh [0935] suddenly [06597] at an instant [06621].
12 Upon my right [03225] hand rise [06965] the youth [06526]; they push away [07971] my feet [07272], and they raise up [05549] against me the ways [0734] of their destruction [0343].
13 They mar [05420] my path [05410], they set forward [03276] my calamity [01942] [01962], they have no helper [05826].
20 And David [01732] came [0935] to Baalperazim [01188], and David [01732] smote [05221] them there, and said [0559], The LORD [03068] hath broken forth [06555] upon mine enemies [0341] before [06440] me, as the breach [06556] of waters [04325]. Therefore he called [07121] the name [08034] of that place [04725] Baalperazim [01188].
13 Therefore this iniquity [05771] shall be to you as a breach [06556] ready to fall [05307], swelling out [01158] in a high [07682] wall [02346], whose breaking [07667] cometh [0935] suddenly [06597] at an instant [06621].
15 Terrors [01091] are turned [02015] upon me: they pursue [07291] my soul [05082] as the wind [07307]: and my welfare [03444] passeth away [05674] as a cloud [05645].