Job 30:7

Among the bushes they brayed like donkeys 1 and they gathered together under the nettles. 1

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

In Context

6So they had to live in river valleys, 1 in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 1

8They were the sons of fools, indeed, sons of nameless people! 1 They were driven out of the land with whips. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:5Does the wild donkey bray in despair when he has grass? 1 Or does the ox low in hunger when it has fodder? 1

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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