Job 30:14 They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

◄ Job 30:14 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

English Standard Version
As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.

New American Standard Bible
"As through a wide breach they come, Amid the tempest they roll on.

King James Bible
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins.

International Standard Version
They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

American Standard Version
As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me .

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.

Darby Bible Translation
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

Young's Literal Translation
As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

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

14. waters—(So 2Sa 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.