Job 30:7
in Job 30They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
KJV
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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This verse in Job 30
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Among the bushes - Coverdale, “Upon the dry heath went they about crying.” The Hebrew word is the same which occurs in Job 30:4, and means bushes in general. They were heard in the shrubbery that grew in the desert. They brayed - ינהקו yinâhaqû. The Vulgate renders this, “They were concealed.” The Septuagint, “Amidst sweet sounds they cry out.” Noyes, “They utter their cries.” The Hebrew word properly means to “bray.” It occurs only here and in Job 6:5, where it is applied to the ass.
This site's exposition
they brayed
on Job 30:7-9
Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they were gathered together likens this outcast company to braying animals, Barnes reading the verb as deliberately degrading, the opposite of the reasoned counsel Job's own words commanded in chapter 29. Children of fools, yea, children of base men names them not merely poor but without lineage, viler than the earth itself in the culture's own reckoning. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword marks the reversal complete, the man whose speech once silenced princes now supplying material for the mockery of society's lowest rank.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּין־ | bein- | between | H996 → | 407 times |
| שִׂיחִ֥ים | sichim | bushes | H7880 → | |
| יִנְהָ֑קוּ | yinhaku | they bray | H5101 → | |
| תַּ֖חַת | tachat | under | H8478 → | 505 times |
| חָר֣וּל | charul | nettle[s] | H2738 → | |
| יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃ | yesupachu | they are joined together | H5596 → |
בֵּין־between
bein-H996 →407 times
שִׂיחִ֥יםbushes
sichimH7880 →
יִנְהָ֑קוּthey bray
yinhakuH5101 →
תַּ֖חַתunder
tachatH8478 →505 times
חָר֣וּלnettle[s]
charulH2738 →
יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃they are joined together
yesupachuH5596 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
it leads to
- Job 39:5–8
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
- Genesis 25:18
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
- Job 11:12
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- Genesis 27:40
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- Job 39:5–8
Through
Job 11:12But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
it leads to
- James 2:20
O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
- Jeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they…
- Psalms 73:22
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
- James 2:20
About Job
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.