They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me. Treasury of Scripture as a wide Job 22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood: Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. Psalm 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 brings up on them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory...
Context Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt
1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) 6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 9And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword. 10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 11Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. 12On 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 on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me .
Douay-Rheims Bible
They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.
Darby Bible Translation
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
King James Bible
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Young's Literal Translation
As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
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