Job 30:14
“They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters,.... As when a wide breach is made in the banks of a river, or of the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
They came upon me as a wide breaking-in of waters - The Hebrew here is simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 30:1-14
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
The verse reads,
They come in as through a wide breach,
Amidst the crash they roll themselves upon me.
The figure is…