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Job 30:12 Meaning & Commentary – Destruction and Adversity

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

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Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

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They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

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And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

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They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

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For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.