Job 30:7

In the bushes they howled like animals because they were hungry, and they huddled together under thornbushes.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

In Context

6They were forced to live in caves in the hills, in holes in the ground, and in the sides of cliffs.

8They were people without good sense, whose names no one knows; they have been expelled from the land where they were born.

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Cross References

Job 6:5Just like a wild donkey does not complain by braying when it has plenty of grass to eat, and an ox does not complain by bellowing when it has food to eat [MET], I would not complain if you were really helping/comforting me.

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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