Job 30:7
They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
In Context
6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
8The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
Cross References
Job 6:5Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?
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 →