John Gill's Exposition on Job 30:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They mar my path, etc.] Hindered him in the exercise of religious duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worship of God, or to walk in the paths of holiness and righteousness; or they reproached his holy walk and conversation, and treated it with contempt, and triumphed over religion and godliness: they set forward my calamity; added affliction to affliction, increased his troubles by their reproaches and calumnies, and were pleased with it, as if it was profitable as well as pleasurable to them, (see <380115>Zechariah 1:15); they have no helper; either no person of note to join them, and, to abet, assist, and encourage them; or they needed none, being forward enough of themselves to give him all the distress and disturbance they could, and he being so weak and unable to resist them; nor there is “no helper against them” f1094; none to take Job’s part against them, and deliver him out of their hands, (see <210401>Ecclesiastes 4:1).

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