Bible Strands
Job 30:14
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks from a position of extreme distress, describing how his adversaries exploit his ruined condition without restraint.
The words — The text highlights כְּפֶרֶץ רָחָב (ke./Fe.retz ra.Chav) = like a wide breach, and הִתְגַּלְגְּלוּ (hit.gal.Ga.lu) = they have rolled themselves.
The thread — This imagery of overwhelming force and ruin appears in Job 22:16, Psalms 18:4, and Psalms 69:14.
Why it lands — The passage states that enemies breach defenses and roll through devastation, demanding recognition that adversity removes all barriers to opposition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Cross-references
- Job 22:16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
- Psalms 18:4 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- Psalms 69:14 Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- Isaiah 8:7 the 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.