Job 30:13
They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
BSB
ASV
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.
KJV
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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.
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Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
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Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
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Isaiah 3:12Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
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“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
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Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
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Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.