the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Job 30:13
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They tear up my path;they contribute to my destruction,without anyone to help them.
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.
They break up my road and work to destroy me, and no one helps me.
They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.
"They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans], They profit from my destruction; No one restrains them.
"They break up my path, They promote my destruction; No one restrains them.
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.
They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.
They break up my path;They profit from my destruction;They have no helper.
They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
Without any help, they prevent my escape, destroying me completely
breaking up my path, furthering my calamity — even those who have no one to help them.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
They guard the road so that I cannot escape. They succeed in destroying me, without help from anyone.
They mar my paths without a cause, they rejoice for what has befallen me; they shall have no helper.
They cut off my escape and try to destroy me; and there is no one to stop them.
They destroy my path; they promote my destruction; they have no helper.
They have broken down my path; they profit by my ruin; they have no helper.
& my path haue they clene marred. It was so easy for them to do me harme, that they neded no man to helpe the.
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.
They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
They break up my path, they further my calamity, even men that have no helper.
They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.
My pathes haue they cleane marred, it was so easye for them to do me harme, that they needed no man to help them.
My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, even men that have no helper.
Thei destrieden my weies; thei settiden tresoun to me, and hadden the maistri; and `noon was that helpide.
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no helper.
They block my road and do everything they can to destroy me. They know I have no one to help me.
They break up my path. They make trouble for me, and no one stops them.
They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
They brake up my path, - My engulfing ruin, they helped forward, unaided;
They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.
They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'
"They break up my path, They profit from my destruction; No one restrains them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they set forward: Psalms 69:26, Zechariah 1:15
Cross-References
After Rachel had had Joseph, Jacob spoke to Laban, "Let me go back home. Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. You know how hard I've worked for you."
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau." Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since." They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob. Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan. He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother. And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak). God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)." God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House). They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor—hard, hard labor. When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid—you have another boy." With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune). Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone." Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram.
Asher's sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Also their sister Serah, and Beriah's sons, Heber and Malkiel.
Asher will become famous for rich foods, candies and sweets fit for kings.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They mar my path,.... Hindered him in the exercise of religious duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worship of God, or to walk in the paths of holiness and righteousness; or they reproached his holy walk and conversation, and treated it with contempt, and triumphed over religion and godliness:
they set forward my calamity; added affliction to affliction, increased his troubles by their reproaches and calumnies, and were pleased with it, as if it was profitable as well as pleasurable to them, see Zechariah 1:15;
they have no helper; either no person of note to join them, and, to abet, assist, and encourage them; or they needed none, being forward enough of themselves to give him all the distress and disturbance they could, and he being so weak and unable to resist them; nor there is "no helper against them" q; none to take Job's part against them, and deliver him out of their hands, see Ecclesiastes 4:1.
q למו "adversus illos", Beza, Schmidt, Michaelis; so Noldius, p. 514.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They mar my path - They break up all my plans. Perhaps here, also, the image is taken from war, and Job may represent himself as on a line of march, and he says that this rabble comes and breaks up his path altogether. They break down the bridges, and tear up the way, so that it is impossible to pass along. His plans of life were embarrassed by them, and they were to him a perpetual annoyance.
They set forward my calamity - Luther renders this part of the verse, “It was so easy for them to injure me, that they needed no help.” The literal translation of the Hebrew here would be, “they profit for my ruin;” that is, they bring as it were profit to my ruin; they help it on; they promote it. A similar expression occurs in Zechariah 1:15, “I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the afliction;” that is, they aided in urging it forward. The idea here is, that they hastened his fall. Instead of assisting him in any way, they contributed all they could to bring him down to the dust.
They have no helper - Very various interpretations have been given of this phrase. It may mean, that they had done this alone, without the aid of others; or that they were persons who were held in abhorrence, and whom no one would assist; or that they were worthless and abandoned persons. Schultens has shown that the phrase, “one who has no helper,” is proverbial among the Arabs, and denotes a worthless person, or one of the lowest class. In proof of this, he quotes the Hamasa, which he thus translates, Videmus vos ignobiles, pauperes, quibus nullus ex reliquis hominibus adjutor. See, also, other similar expressions quoted by him from Arabic writings. The idea here then is, probably, that they were so worthless and abandoned that no one would help them - an expression denoting the utmost degradation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 30:13. 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 succour and support.
They have no helper. — "There is not an adviser among them."-Mr. Good. There is none to give them better instruction.
