Job 30:15

"As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin."

Key Reflection

In Job 30:15, these verses depict the sudden and overwhelming nature of suffering that breaches one's defenses, symbolizing how trials can descend with force and leave chaos in their wake. This imagery underscores the harsh reality of affliction that penetrates deeply, reshaping one’s life amidst destruction and ruin.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Terrors are turned upon me -As if they were all turned upon him, or made to converge toward him. Everything suited to produce terror seemed to have a direction given it toward him. Umbreit, and some others, however, suppose that God is here referred to, and that the meaning is,” God is turned against me terrors drive as a storm against me.” The Hebrew will bear either construction; but it is more emphatic and impressive to suppose it means that everything adapted to produce terror seemed to be turned against him. They pursue my soul as the wind -Margin, my principal one. The word “they” here, refers to the terrors.

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