Parallel Verses

Webster

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

New American Standard Bible

“As through a wide breach they come,
Amid the tempest they roll on.

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 advance as through a gaping breach;
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!

A Conservative Version

As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].

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.

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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אתא אתה 
'athah 
Usage: 21

upon me as a wide
רחב 
Rachab 
Usage: 20

פּרץ 
Perets 
Usage: 20

in of waters in
תּחת 
Tachath 
instead, under, for, as, with, from, flat, in the same place
Usage: 505

שׁאה שׁואה שׁוא 
Show' 
Usage: 13

גּלל 
Galal 
Usage: 18

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. 14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Cross References

Job 22:16

Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!

Psalm 18:4

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Psalm 69:14-15

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Isaiah 8:7-8

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:

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