On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction: - I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him.
Commenting on Job 30:1-14
Upon my right hand rise the youth,.... "Springeth", as Mr. Broughton translates the word; such as were just sprung into being, as it were; the word (n) seems to have the signification of young birds that are not fledged; have not got their feathers on them, but are just got out of the shell, as it were; and such were these young men: some render...
youth--rather, a (low) brood. To rise on the right hand is to accuse, as that was the position of the accuser in court (Zac 3:1; Psa 109:6). push . . . feet--jostle me out of the way (Job 24:4). ways of--that is, their ways of (that is, with a view to my) destruction.