Job 30:14 · KJV
“They came {upon me} as a wide breaking in {of waters}: in the desolation they rolled themselves {upon me}.”
— Job 30:14
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}
Job 30 — Context
Upon {my} right {hand} rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14They came {upon me} as a wide breaking in {of waters}: in the desolation they rolled themselves {upon me}.
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Cross References
Psalms 69:14-15
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Isaiah 8:7-8
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, {even} the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Psalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. {ungodly men: Heb. Belial}
Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}