◄ Job 30:7 ►
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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brayed

Job 6:5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder?

Job 11:12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Genesis 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...

the nettles (Charul probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble: so Vulgate renders it by spina or sentis, (Pr.

24:31. Zep.

Job 2:9 Then said his wife to him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse God, and die.

.) 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.')



Context
Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt

1But 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. 2Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) 6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 9And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword. 10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 11Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. 12On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. 13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. 14They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me.
Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

Darby Bible Translation
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

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

Young's Literal Translation
Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

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