Job 30:6

They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

In Context

5Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

7They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 22:1David therefore went from thence and fled to the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren, and all his father's house had heard of it, they went down to him thither;

Revelation 6:15And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and tribunes, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of 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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