Job 30:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Right hand — This was the place of adversaries or accusers in courts of justice. The youth — Heb. young striplings, who formerly hid themselves from my presence, Job 29:8. Push — Metaphorically, they endeavour to overwhelm me. Ways — Cause — ways, or banks: so it is a metaphor from soldiers, who cast up banks, against the city which they besiege. Destruction — To destroy me.

Job 30:12

12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.