They ruin my path - They break up all my plans. Perhaps here, also, the image is taken from war, and Job may represent himself as on a line …

They have no helper — i.e., probably without deriving from it any help or advantage themselves.

They mar my path
Hindered him in the exercise of religious duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worsh…

Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause do people have to be ambitious or proud of that which m…

After listing the many prosperous things he had enjoyed in the past, Job now lists the adversities he was suffering. He begins by showing that, in …