Job 30:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Job 30:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Psalms 140:4-5
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job’s was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:— I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him. As it added much to his honour, in the day of his prosperity, that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. youth--rather, a (low) brood. To rise on the right hand is to accuse, as that was the position of the accuser in court (Zec 3:1; Psa 109:6). push ... feet--jostle me out of the way (Job 24:4). ways of--that is, their ways of (that is, with a view to my) destruction. Image, as in Job 19:12, from a besieging army throwing up a way of approach for itself to a city.