Job 30:6

They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.

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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 took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.

7They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 22:1Then David went away from there, and he fled to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all of his father’s house had heard of it, they descended to him there.

Revelation 6:15And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the military leaders, and the wealthy, and the strong, and everyone, servant and free, hid themselves in caves and among 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 →

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