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Text -- Job 30:7 (NET)

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30:7 They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: UT | Persecution | Nettles | NETTLE | Job | JOB, BOOK OF | Complaint | BUSH | BRAY | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Job 30:7 - -- Like the wild asses, for hunger or thirst.

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.

JFB: Job 30:7 - -- Or brambles [UMBREIT].

Or brambles [UMBREIT].

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 ינאקו yinaku , they groaned, instead of ינהקו yinhaku , they brayed

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 - חרול charul , the briers or brambles, under the brushwood in the thickest parts of the underwood; they huddled together like wild beasts.

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 : Charul probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble, so Vulgate renders it by spina or sentis , (Pro 24:31. Zep 2:9). Celsius and Scheuchzer are inclined to think it the paliurus , a shrub growing sometimes to a considerable height in desert places. ""One of the inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is,""says Denon, ""that it is difficult to remain in them, as nine tenths of the trees and plants are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment of the shadow which is so constantly desirable.""

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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 - 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. The sense here is, that the voices of this vagrant and wretched multitude was heard in the desert like the braying of asses.

Under the nettles - Dr. Good, "Under the briers."Prof. Lee, "Beneath the broom-pea."Noyes, "Under the thorns."The Hebrew word חרול chârûl , occurs only here and in Zep 2:9, and Pro 24:31, in each of which places it is rendered "nettles."It is probably derived from חרל = חרר , to burn, to glow, and is given to nettles from the burning or prickling sensation which they produce. Either the word nettles, thistles, or thorns, would sufficiently answer to its derivation. It does not occur in the Arabic. Castell. Umbreit renders it, "unter Dornen - under thorns."

They were gathered together - Vulgate, "They accounted it a delicacy to be in a thorn-hedge."The word used here ( ספח sâphach ) means "to add;"and then to be added or assembled together. The idea is, that they were huddled together quite promiscuously in the wild-growing bushes of the desert. They had no home; no separate habitation. This description is interesting, not only as denoting the depth to which Job had been reduced when he was the object of contempt by such vagrants, but as illustrative of a state of society existing then.

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 - -- 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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 30:7 The Pual of the verb סָפַח (safakh, “to join”) also brings out the passivity of these people – “...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

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 - --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 - -- 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 - -- 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 - --2. Job's defense of his innocence ch. 29-31 Job gave a soliloquy before his dialogue with his th...

Constable: Job 30:1-31 - --Job's present misery ch. 30 "Chapter 29 speaks of what the Lord gave to Job and chapter ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Job (Book Introduction) JOB A REAL PERSON.--It has been supposed by some that the book of Job is an allegory, not a real narrative, on account of the artificial character of ...

JFB: Job (Outline) THE HOLINESS OF JOB, HIS WEALTH, &c. (Job 1:1-5) SATAN, APPEARING BEFORE GOD, FALSELY ACCUSES JOB. (Job 1:6-12) SATAN FURTHER TEMPTS JOB. (Job 2:1-8)...

TSK: Job (Book Introduction) A large aquatic animal, perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, the exact meaning is unknown. Some think this to be a crocodile but from the desc...

TSK: Job 30 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Job 30:1, Job’s honour is turned into extreme contempt; Job 30:15, and his prosperity into calamity.

Poole: Job 30 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 30 Job’ s honour is turned into contempt, Job 30:1-14 ; his prosperity into calamity, fears, pains, despicableness, Job 30:15-19 ; not...

MHCC: Job (Book Introduction) This book is so called from Job, whose prosperity, afflictions, and restoration, are here recorded. He lived soon after Abraham, or perhaps before tha...

MHCC: Job 30 (Chapter Introduction) (Job 30:1-14) Job's honour is turned into contempt. (v. 15-31) Job a burden to himself.

Matthew Henry: Job (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Job This book of Job stands by itself, is not connected with any other, and is therefore to...

Matthew Henry: Job 30 (Chapter Introduction) It is a melancholy " But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing c...

Constable: Job (Book Introduction) Introduction Title This book, like many others in the Old Testament, got its name from...

Constable: Job (Outline) Outline I. Prologue chs. 1-2 A. Job's character 1:1-5 B. Job's calamitie...

Constable: Job Job Bibliography Andersen, Francis I. Job. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series. Leicester, Eng. and Downe...

Haydock: Job (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF JOB. INTRODUCTION. This Book takes its name from the holy man, of whom it treats; who, according to the more probable opinion, was ...

Gill: Job (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB This book, in the Hebrew copies, generally goes by this name, from Job, who is however the subject, if not the writer of it. In...

Gill: Job 30 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB 30 Job in this chapter sets forth his then unhappy state and condition, in contrast with his former state of prosperity describ...

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