These outcasts oppose me to my face. They send me sprawling and lay traps in my path.
Parallel translations
- WEB On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
- KJV Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
- BSB The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
- NKJV At my right hand the rabble arises; They push away my feet, And they raise against me their ways of destruction.
- NASB “On the right hand their mob arises; They push aside my feet and pile up their ways of destruction against me.
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Quick answer
A mob rises against Job, tripping his feet and building up their ways to destroy him.
Overview
Job depicts himself under assault from a rabble that attacks his footing and lays siege against him like an army besieging a city. The military imagery conveys feeling surrounded and overwhelmed by hostility. His sense of being besieged and helpless points ahead to the cry of the righteous sufferer for deliverance, ultimately answered in Christ, who endured the assault of His enemies and triumphed (Psalm 22:16-18).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Job 19:12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
- Job 19:18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
- Ps 140:4–5Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
- Isa 3:5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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