They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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Gill's Exposition
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters,.... As when a wide breach is made in the banks of a river, or of the sea, the waters rush through in great abundance, with great rapidity and…
Barnes' Notes
They came upon me as a wide breaking-in of waters - The Hebrew here is simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the reference may be, not to an inundation, as our translators supposed, but to an…
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…
Cambridge Bible
The verse reads,
They come in as through a wide breach,
Amidst the crash they roll themselves upon me.
The figure is that of a stormed fastness. The "crash" is that of the falling walls.