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Job 30:12

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30:12On my right the young rabble25 rise up;

they drive me from place to place,26

and build up siege ramps27 against me.28

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Footnotes

  1. 25 This Hebrew word occurs only here. The word פִּרְחַח (pirkhakh, “young rabble”) is a quadriliteral, from פָּרַח (parakh, “to bud”) The derivative אֶפְרֹחַ (’efroakh) in the Bible refers to a young bird. In Arabic farhun means both “young bird” and “base man.” Perhaps “young rabble” is the best meaning here (see R. Gordis, Job, 333).
  2. 26 Heb “they cast off my feet” or “they send my feet away.” Many delete the line as troubling and superfluous. E. Dhorme (Job, 438) forces the lines to say “they draw my feet into a net.”
  3. 27 Heb “paths of their destruction” or “their destructive paths.”

Cross references

  1. 28 See Job 19:12.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

On my right hand the rabble rise;

they push away my feet;

they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

On my right the tribe attacks;

they lay snares for my feet,

they build their siege ramps against me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The rabble rise up at my right;

they trap my feet

and construct their siege ramp against me.

NLTNew Living Translation

These outcasts oppose me to my face.

They send me sprawling

and lay traps in my path.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

On the right hand the brood rises up;

they put me to flight,

and they build up their siege ramps against me.

KJV 1900King James Version

Upon my right hand rise the youth;

They push away my feet,

And they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.