Job 30:7

_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 those of the beast of the field. GATHERED TOGETHER - rather, sprinkled here and there. Literally, poured out х_ YªCUPAACHUW_ (H5596)], graphically picturing their disorderly mode of encampment, lying up and down behind the thorn-bushes. NETTLES - or brambles (Umbreit)....

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....

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 of ינהקו _yinhaku, they brayed_. _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....

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, “Beneat

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 presents himself to us as he is, despised of men (verses 1-10), afflicted of God (verse 11), a prey to vague terrors (verse 15), tortured with bodily pains (verses 17, 18), cast off by God (verses 19, 20), with nothing but death to look for (verses 23-31). The chapter is the most touching in the whole book. JOB 30:1 BUT NOW THEY THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN I HAVE ME IN DERISION. As Job had been speaking last of the honour in which he was once held, he beans his contrast by chewing how at present he is disgraced and derided. Men who are outcasts and solitar

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 Luke 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 el

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 misery. Ah! the bitterness if it--those younger than I have me in derision! Alas! through it all we hear nothing but pride. He scorns those who were so much beneath him. And those who were scourged out of the land, these children of fools and base men, mock him, the former prince among men. “I am become their song; I am a byword to them; they abhor me; they spit in my face.” Then he describes his affliction. “Days of affliction have taken hold upon me--the pains that gnaw me take no rest.” He is in the mire and has become

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 of the description of the outcasts, which we have already met in Job 24:5 f. When we look at the passage apart from Job 30:1, the impression it makes is not one of contempt for their abject condition, but of pity for their misery. Hence the greater part would have been better suited to one of Job's delineations of human wretchedness than to the picture he is painting of his own distress, from which he is diverted at a surprisingly early point (Peake). Duhm, followed by Strahan, treats...

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.} / {_burned,_ Noldius, 919.} See the Observations, p. 85....