They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.
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
They mar my path,.... 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...
Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by which succor might reach me. set forward-- (Zac 1:15). they have no helper--Arabic proverb for contemptible persons. Yet even such afflict Job.