12 On the right hand their [a]mob arises;
They (A)push aside my feet (B)and pile up their ways of destruction against me.
13 They (C)break up my path,
They promote my destruction;
No one restrains them.
14 As through a wide gap they come,
[b]Amid the storm they roll on.
15 (D)Sudden terrors are turned upon me;
They chase away my dignity like the wind,
And my [c]prosperity has passed away (E)like a cloud.

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  1. Job 30:12 Or youth arise
  2. Job 30:14 Lit Under
  3. Job 30:15 Or welfare

12 On my right(A) the tribe[a] attacks;
    they lay snares(B) for my feet,(C)
    they build their siege ramps against me.(D)
13 They break up my road;(E)
    they succeed in destroying me.(F)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(G)
    amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(H) overwhelm me;(I)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.(J)

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  1. Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

The Lord (A)is righteous;
He has cut up the (B)ropes of the wicked.

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But the Lord is righteous;(A)
    he has cut me free(B) from the cords of the wicked.”(C)

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26 And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not [a]act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell and the [b]floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and its collapse was great.”

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  1. Matthew 7:26 Lit do them
  2. Matthew 7:27 Lit rivers

26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

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