Job 30:7
They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
In Context
6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
8They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
Cross References
Job 6:5Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
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 →