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Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed, crying out like the wild ass of the steppes; under the nettles, the brambles of the desert, they were gathered together; like herds of beasts of the wilderness.
Among the bushes they brayed, crying out like the wild ass of the steppes; under the nettles, the brambles of the desert, they were gathered together; like herds of beasts of the wilderness.
Verse 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 ינאקו _yinaku, they groaned_, instead...
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...
CHAPTER 30 _ 1. His present humiliation and shame (Job 30:1)_ 2. No answer from God: completely forsaken (Job 30:20) Job 30:1. He had spoken of his past greatness and now he describes his present mi...
JOB 30. JOB'S PRESENT MISERY. As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2 as a misplaced section...
_they brayed_ Rather, THEY BRAY. _were gathered_ Better, ARE GATHERED, or perhaps rather, _stretch themselves_, i. e. fling themselves down. Their cries are like those of the wild ass seeking for foo...
Description of this wretched class of outcasts. The _tenses_should all be put in the present. The race of people referred to appears to be the same as that in ch. 24....
THEY BRAYED— _They made their moan, or cried out._ Heath and Houbigant. The latter part of the verse may be rendered, _Among the nettles were they ..._ {_tormented,_ Hiller, par. 2: p. 196 con.} / {_b...
2. Sorrowful description of his present sad estate (Job 30:1-31) a. The contempt he has from men of lowest class (Job 30:1-15) TEXT 30:1-15 1 BUT NOW THEY THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN I HAVE ME IN DERISIO...
_AMONG THE BUSHES THEY BRAYED; UNDER THE NETTLES THEY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER._ Brayed - like the wild donkey (Job 6:5) for food. The inarticulate tones of this uncivilized rabble are but little above...
JOB'S PRESENT MISERY Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29. It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains that he is...
Render, 'They snore under bushes and huddle under thorny shrubs.' 8B. RY 'They were scourged out of the land.' 9-14. A description of a poor old man mobbed and worried by the rabble. Or possibly 11-...
Formerly the most important people would gather to listen to Job. And they respected Job greatly. But now, the worst youths would gather to see Job. They would insult Job. And they would laugh at him...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 30 JOB MAKES A LIST OF HIS...
AMONG THE BUSHES THEY BRAYED. — Herodotus says their language was like the screeching of bats, others say it was like the whistling of birds. This whole description is of the mockers of Job, and there...
בֵּין ־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
_Pleased. Hebrew, "brayed." (Calmet) --- Briars. Protestants, "nettles." They were driven from the society of men and forced to abscond. (Haydock)_...
(1) В¶ 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 m...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 lurkin...
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. Ver. 7. _Among the bushes they brayed_] Through grief and discontent at their low condition and many miseries; which yet t...
_Among the bushes they brayed_ Like the wild asses, (Job 6:5,) for hunger or thirst. _They brayed_, seems to be an improper translation here; because, though נהק, _nahak_, signifies _to bray_, when ap...
MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest class, w...
For warmth they huddle together under desert brush....
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 easily lost, and what little confidence is to...
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...
Job 30:7 bushes H7880 brayed H5101 (H8799) nettles H2738 nestled H5596 (H8792) brayed - Job 6:5,...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He reviews his present condition. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The best saints often receive the worst of indignities from a spiteful and scornful wor...
Job 30:1. _The dogs of my flock._ Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15. He says it rather with a view to describe the sin...
_But now they that are younger than I have me in derision._ JOB’S SOCIAL DISABILITIES Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to him b...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:1 Although Job had delivered the truly needy from their unrighteous oppressors (Job 29:11), those who now mock him are themselves needy, because of their own actions and foolishness...
_THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED_ With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for complai...
EXPOSITION JOB 30:1 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Job now present...
But now, chapter 30, he tells of the present condition. And just as glorious as was the past, so depressing is the present. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I wo...
Genesis 16:12; Job 11:12; Job 6:5; Proverbs 24:31...
Brayed — Like the wild asses, for hunger or thirst. Thorns — Under which they hide themselves, that they might not be discovered when they are sought out for justice....