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An Overwhelming Breach
Commentators explain that Job uses a powerful image to describe his suffering. He feels as if his former honor and status were like a protective wall, but now a wide breach has been made. His enemies are pouring in like a besieging army through a broken wall or a catastrophic flood through a broken dam, overwhelming him with irresistible and tumultuous force.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 30:14
18th Century
Theologian
They came upon me as a wide breaking-in of waters - The Hebrew here is simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the reference ma…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 30:14
19th Century
Bishop
As a wide breaking in of waters. —Or, as through a wide breach they come. “In the midst of the crash they roll themselves…
John Gill
On Job 30:14
17th Century
Pastor
They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]
As when a wide breach is made in the banks of a river, or of t…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 30:1–14
17th Century
Minister
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…