Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Holman Bible
they keep rolling in through the ruins.
International Standard Version
They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!
American Standard Version
As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me .
Amplified
“As through a wide breach they come,
Amid the crash [of falling walls] they roll on [over me].
Bible in Basic English
As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
Darby Translation
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
Julia Smith Translation
They will come as a wide breach under a destroying tempest, they rolled themselves.
King James 2000
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As [through] a wide breach they come; amid a crash they rush on.
Modern King James verseion
As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.
NET Bible
They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.
New Heart English Bible
As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
The Emphasized Bible
As through a wide breach, came they on, with a crashing noise, they rolled themselves along.
Webster
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
World English Bible
As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
13 They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper. 14 As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me]. 15 Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Names
Cross References
Job 22:16
Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Psalm 18:4
The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Psalm 69:14-15
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Isaiah 8:7-8
now therefore, behold, LORD brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks,