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Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt

Job 30:14

In 11 translations

BSB
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
KJV
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
WEB
As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
ASV
As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
LSV
They come as a wide breach, || Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
YLT
As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
DBY
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
DRC
They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.
GNV
They came as a great breach of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.
JPS
As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
LXXE
And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃
LXX-Br
βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέ με. Κέκριται δέ μοι ὡς βούλεται, ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
  • Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
  • Isaiah 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks. It will pour into Judah, swirling and…
  • Psalms 69:14–15Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters. Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

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