Job 30:7
Good News Translation
Out in the wilds they howled like animals and huddled together under the bushes.

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

Contemporary English Version
where they bray like donkeys gathering around shrubs.

New American Bible
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they huddled together.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

brayed

Job 6:5 Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?

Job 11:12 A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

Genesis 16:12 He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.

24:31. Zep.

Job 2:9 And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless 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 Turned into Contempt
6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel. 7They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.8The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.…
Cross References
Job 30:6
They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

Job 30:8
The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

Proverbs 24:31
And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.

Job 30:6
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