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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Footnotes

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

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

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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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