Job 30 · Verse 13

Job 30:13

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job 30:13, King James Version

Job 30:13 in other translations

BSBThey tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
WEBThey mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
ASVThey mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.
YLTThey have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, ‘He hath no helper.'
DARBYThey mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
BBEThey have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
WebsterThey mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

What does Job 30:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by which succor might reach me. set forward--(Zec 1:15). they have no helper--Arabic proverb for contemptible persons. Yet even such afflict Job.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 They mar my path - They destroy the way-marks, so that there is no safety in travelling through the deserts, the guide-posts and way-marks being gone. These may be an allusion here to a besieged city: the besiegers strive by every means and way to distress the besieged; stopping up the fountains, breaking up the road, raising up towers to project arrows and stones into the city, called here raising up against it the ways of destruction, Job 30:12; preventing all succor and support. They have no helper - "There is not an adviser among them." - Mr. Good. There is none to give them better instruction.

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 30:13 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.

נָתְס֗וּna.te.Suthey have torn downH5420
נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥יne.ti.Va.Tipathway myH5410
לְהַוָּתִ֥יle.ha.va.Tito destruction myH1942
יֹעִ֑ילוּyo.'I.luthey benefitH3276
לֹ֖אlo'notH3808
עֹזֵ֣ר'o.Zera helperH5826
לָֽמוֹ\׃la.mo[belongs] to them

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

Cross references for Job 30:13

  • Zechariah 1:15

    And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

  • Isaiah 3:12

    As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

  • Psalms 69:26

    For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
they set forward.
Ps 69:26; Zec 1:15

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

Context

  • 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.

  • Job 30:14

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

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Job 30:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mi senda desbarataron, aprovecháronse de mi quebrantamiento, contra los cuales no hubo ayudador.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils détruisent mon sentier, ils contribuent à ma calamité, sans que personne leur vienne en aide;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sie zerstören meinen Pfad, befördern meinen Untergang, sie, die selbst hilflos sind.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dissipaverunt itinera mea; insidiati sunt mihi, et prævaluerunt: et non fuit qui ferret auxilium.