Job 30:6
They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
In Context
5They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
7They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:1So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.
Revelation 6:15And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →