Job 30:14
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
BSB
ASV
As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
KJV
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in - They storm me on every side. In the desolation they rolled themselves - When they had made the breach, they rolled in upon me as an irresistible torrent. There still appears to be an allusion to a besieged city: the sap, the breach, the storm, the flight, the pursuit, and the slaughter. See the following verse, Job 30:15 (note).
But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12, 13. "They came [upon me] as through a wide breach," namely, made by the besiegers in the wall of a fortress (Isa 30:13) [MAURER]. in the desolation--"Amidst the crash" of falling masonry, or "with a shout like the crash" of, &c.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
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It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
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Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
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The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed.
When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he…