Job 30:12 On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.

English Standard Version
On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

New American Standard Bible
"On the right hand their brood arises; They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

King James Bible
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me.

International Standard Version
"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

American Standard Version
Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.

Darby Bible Translation
At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

Young's Literal Translation
On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

Cross References

Job 16:10
They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

Psalm 140:4
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Psalm 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

30:1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. youth—rather, a (low) brood. To rise on the right hand is to accuse, as that was the position of the accuser in court (Zec 3:1; Ps 109:6).

push … feet—jostle me out of the way (Job 24:4).

ways of—that is, their ways of (that is, with a view to my) destruction. Image, as in Job 19:12, from a besieging army throwing up a way of approach for itself to a city.