Job 30 · Verse 12

Job 30:12

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

Job 30:12, King James Version

Job 30:12 in other translations

BSB	The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
WEB	On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
ASV	Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
YLT	On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
DARBY	At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
BBE	The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
Webster	Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

What does Job 30:12 mean?

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; Psa 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 12 Upon my right hand rise the youth - The word פרחח pirchach, which we translate youth, signifies properly buds, or the buttons of trees. Mr. Good has younglings. Younkers would be better, were it not too colloquial. They push away my feet - They trip up my heels, or they in effect trample me under their feet. They rush upon and overwhelm me. They are violently incensed against me. They roll themselves upon me, התגלגלו hithgalgalu, velut unda impellit undam, as waves of the sea which wash the sand from under the feet, and then swamp the man to the bottom; see Job 30:14.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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.

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Job 30:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עַל\־'al-onH5921

יָמִין֮ya.Min[the] right [side]H3225

פִּרְחַ֪חpir.Chacha broodH6526

יָ֫ק֥וּמוּya.Ku.muthey ariseH6965

רַגְלַ֥יrag.Laifeet myH7272

שִׁלֵּ֑חוּshi.Le.chuthey have sent awayH7971

וַיָּסֹ֥לּוּvai.ya.So.luand they have piled upH5549

עָ֝לַ֗י'a.Laion meH5921

אָרְח֥וֹת'a.re.Chot[the] paths ofH734

אֵידָֽם\׃'ei.Damdisaster theirH343

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 30:12

Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Psalms 140:4-5
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 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.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

rise.
19:18; Isa 3:5
they raise up.
19:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 30:11
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

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Job 30:12 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	A la mano derecha se levantaron los jóvenes; empujaron mis pies, y sentaron contra mí las vías de su ruina.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Cette jeune engeance se lève à ma droite; ils poussent mes pieds et préparent contre moi leur chemin pernicieux;
German Elberfelder 1871	Zu meiner Rechten erhebt sich die Brut; sie stoßen meine Füße hinweg und bahnen wider mich ihre verderblichen Wege.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Ad dexteram orientis calamitates meæ illico surrexerunt: pedes meos subverterunt, et oppresserunt quasi fluctibus semitis suis.