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Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt

Job 30:12

In 11 translations

BSB
The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
KJV
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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.
LSV
A brood arises on the right hand, || They have cast away my feet, || And they raise up against me, || Their paths of calamity.
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.
DBY
At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
DRC
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.
GNV
The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.
JPS
Upon my right hand rise the brood; they entangle my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
LXXE
They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עַל־יָמִין֮ פִּרְחַ֪ח יָ֫ק֥וּמוּ רַגְלַ֥י שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ וַיָּסֹ֥לּוּ עָ֝לַ֗י אָרְח֥וֹת אֵידָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐπανέστησαν, πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν, καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπʼ ἐμὲ· τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν.

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◆ Job's Trial

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 19:12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
  • Isaiah 3:5The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
  • Psalms 140:4–5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble. The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out…
  • Job 19:18Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

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