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13 Without any help,
    they prevent my escape,
destroying me completely[a]
14     and leaving me crushed.
15 Terror has me surrounded;
my reputation and my riches
    have vanished like a cloud.

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  1. 30.13 destroying … completely: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

13 They break up my road;(A)
    they succeed in destroying me.(B)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(C)
    amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(D) overwhelm me;(E)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.(F)

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