Job 30:7 They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.

◄ Job 30:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.

English Standard Version
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

New American Standard Bible
"Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They bray among the shrubs; they huddle beneath the thistles.

International Standard Version
They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.

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:

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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 easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. brayed—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.

gathered together—rather, sprinkled here and there. Literally, "poured out," graphically picturing their disorderly mode of encampment, lying up and down behind the thorn bushes.

nettles—or brambles [Umbreit].