
Text -- Job 30:7 (NET)




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Like the wild asses, for hunger or thirst.

Wesley: Job 30:7 - -- Under which they hide themselves, that they might not be discovered when they are sought out for justice.
Under which they hide themselves, that they might not be discovered when they are sought out for justice.
JFB: Job 30:7 - -- Like the wild ass (Job 6:5 for food). The inarticulate tones of this uncivilized rabble are but little above those of the beast of the field.
Like the wild ass (Job 6:5 for food). The inarticulate tones of this uncivilized rabble are but little above those of the beast of the field.

JFB: Job 30:7 - -- Rather, sprinkled here and there. Literally, "poured out," graphically picturing their disorderly mode of encampment, lying up and down behind the tho...
Rather, sprinkled here and there. Literally, "poured out," graphically picturing their disorderly mode of encampment, lying up and down behind the thorn bushes.
Clarke: Job 30:7 - -- Among the bushes they brayed - They cried out among the bushes, seeking for food, as the wild ass when he is in want of provender. Two MSS. read י...
Among the bushes they brayed - They cried out among the bushes, seeking for food, as the wild ass when he is in want of provender. Two MSS. read

Clarke: Job 30:7 - -- Under the nettles - חרול charul , the briers or brambles, under the brushwood in the thickest parts of the underwood; they huddled together lik...
Under the nettles -
TSK -> Job 30:7
TSK: Job 30:7 - -- brayed : Job 6:5, Job 11:12; Gen 16:12
the nettles : Charul probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble, so Vulgate renders it by spina or s...
brayed : Job 6:5, Job 11:12; Gen 16:12
the nettles :

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Barnes -> Job 30:7
Barnes: Job 30:7 - -- 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 bushe...
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 -
Under the nettles - Dr. Good, "Under the briers."Prof. Lee, "Beneath the broom-pea."Noyes, "Under the thorns."The Hebrew word
They were gathered together - Vulgate, "They accounted it a delicacy to be in a thorn-hedge."The word used here (
Poole -> Job 30:7
Poole: Job 30:7 - -- They brayed like the wild asses, Job 6:5 , for hunger or thirst.
Under the nettles which seem not proper for that use. This Hebrew word is used but...
They brayed like the wild asses, Job 6:5 , for hunger or thirst.
Under the nettles which seem not proper for that use. This Hebrew word is used but twice in Scripture, and it is acknowledged both by Jewish and Christian writers, that the signification of the Hebrew words which express plants, or beasts, or stones, &c. is very uncertain; and therefore this is by others, and may well be, understood of some kind of thorns; and so this is the same thing with the bushes in the former branch of the verse, under which they hid themselves, that they might not be discovered when they were sought out for justice.
Haydock -> Job 30:7
Haydock: Job 30:7 - -- Pleased. Hebrew, "brayed." (Calmet) ---
Briars. Protestants, "nettles." They were driven from the society of men and forced to abscond. (Haydo...
Pleased. Hebrew, "brayed." (Calmet) ---
Briars. Protestants, "nettles." They were driven from the society of men and forced to abscond. (Haydock)
Gill -> Job 30:7
Gill: Job 30:7 - -- Among the bushes they brayed,.... Like wild asses; so Sephorno, to which wicked men are fitly compared, Job 11:12; or they "cried", or "groaned" m, an...
Among the bushes they brayed,.... Like wild asses; so Sephorno, to which wicked men are fitly compared, Job 11:12; or they "cried", or "groaned" m, and "moaned" among the bushes, where they lay lurking; either they groaned through cold, or want of food; for the wild ass brays not but when in want, Job 6:5;
under the nettles they were gathered together; or "under thistles" n, as some, or "under thorns", as o others; under thorn hedges, where they lay either for shelter, or to hide themselves, or to seize upon a prey that might pass by; and so were such sort of persons as in the parable in Luk 14:23; it not being usual for nettles to grow so high as to cover persons, at least they are not a proper shelter, and much less an eligible one; though some render the words, they were "pricked" p, blistered and wounded, a word derived from this being used for the scab of leprosy, Lev 13:6; and so pustules and blisters are raised by the sting of nettles: the Targum is,
"under thorns they were associated together;''
under thorn hedges, as before observed; and if the juniper tree is meant in Job 30:4, they might be said to be gathered under thorns when under that; since, as Pliny q says, it has thorns instead of leaves; and the shadow of it, according to the poet r, is very noxious and disagreeable.

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TSK Synopsis -> Job 30:1-31
TSK Synopsis: Job 30:1-31 - --1 Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt;15 and his prosperity into calamity.
MHCC -> Job 30:1-14
MHCC: Job 30:1-14 - --Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so ...
Matthew Henry -> Job 30:1-14
Matthew Henry: Job 30:1-14 - -- Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedin...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Job 30:5-8
Keil-Delitzsch: Job 30:5-8 - --
5 They are driven forth from society,
They cry after them as after a thief.
6 In the most dismal valleys they must dwell,
In holes of the earth a...
Constable -> Job 29:1--31:40; Job 30:1-31
Constable: Job 29:1--31:40 - --2. Job's defense of his innocence ch. 29-31
Job gave a soliloquy before his dialogue with his th...
