Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

New American Standard Bible

“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

King James Version

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Holman Bible

They tear up my path;
they contribute to my destruction,
without anyone to help them.

International Standard Version

They tear up my pathways; they profit from my destruction, and they need no help to do this!

A Conservative Version

They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.

American Standard Version

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.

Amplified


“They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans],
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

Darby Translation

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

Julia Smith Translation

They tore up my beaten path, they helped for my fall, no help to them.

King James 2000

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They destroy my path; they promote my destruction; they have no helper.

Modern King James verseion

They have broken down my path, they gain by my trouble; they have no helper.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and my path have they clean marred. It was so easy for them to do me harm, that they needed no man to help them.

NET Bible

They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

New Heart English Bible

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

The Emphasized Bible

They brake up my path, - My engulfing ruin, they helped forward, unaided;

Webster

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

World English Bible

They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתס 
Nathac 
mar
Usage: 1

my path
נתבה נתיבה נתיב 
Nathiyb 
Usage: 26

יעל 
Ya`al 
Usage: 23

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me: 13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me; 14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

Cross References

Psalm 69:26

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Zechariah 1:15

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

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