Job 30:7

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
They sound like animals howling among the bushes, huddled together beneath the nettles.

English Revised Version
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

Update Bible Version
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

New Century Version
They howled like animals among the bushes and huddled together in the brush.

New English Translation
They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

Webster's Bible Translation
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.

World English Bible
Among the bushes they bray; And under the nettles they are gathered together.

Amplified Bible
"Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals]; Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whiche weren glad among siche thingis, and arettiden delices to be vndur buschis.

Berean Standard Bible
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

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

American Standard Version
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Bible in Basic English
They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

Complete Jewish Bible
Among the bushes they howl like beasts and huddle among the nettles,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
They howl in the bushes and huddle together under thornbushes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

King James Version (1611)
Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together.

New Life Bible
Among the bushes they cry out. They gather together under the thistles.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

George Lamsa Translation
In rocky places, and under bushes.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Among the bushes, used they to shriek, Under the bramble, were they huddled together:

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

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Among the busshes went they about crying, and vnder the thornes they gathered them selues together.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They will cry out among the rustling bushes.

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

Hebrew Names Version
Among the bushes they bray; And under the nettles they are gathered together.

Lexham English Bible
They bray among the bushes; they are gathered under the nettles.

Literal Translation
They bray among the bushes; they huddle together under the nettles;

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vpo the drye heeth wete they aboute crienge, & in the brome hilles they gathered them together.

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

New King James Version
Among the bushes they brayed, Under the nettles they nestled.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Legacy Standard Bible
Among the bushes they cry out;Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Contextual Overview

¹ 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 me, in whom old age was perished? ³ For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. ⁴ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. ⁵ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) ⁶ To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. ⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. ⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ⁹ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ¹⁰ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brayed: Job 6:5, Job 11:12, Genesis 16:12

the nettles: Charul probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble, so Vulgate renders it by spina or sentis, (Proverbs 24:31. Zephaniah 2:9). 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.

Reciprocal: Matthew 27:44 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 eligible one; though some render the words, they were "pricked" p, blistered and wounded, a word derived from this being used for the scab of leprosy, Leviticus 13:6; and so pustules and blisters are raised by the sting of nettles: the Targum is,

"under thorns they were associated together;''

under thorn hedges, as before observed; and if the juniper tree is meant in Job 30:4, they might be said to be gathered under thorns when under that; since, as Pliny q says, it has thorns instead of leaves; and the shadow of it, according to the poet r, is very noxious and disagreeable.

m ינהקו "clamabant", Vatablus, Mercerus; so Ben Gerson; "gemebant", Michaelis; so Broughton. n תחת חרול "sub carduis", Vatablus. o "Sub sentibus", V. L. "sub vepreto aliquo", Tigurine version; "sub vepribus", Cocceius; "sub spina", Noldius, p. 193. Schultens. p יספחו "pungebantur", Junius Tremellius "se ulcerant", Gussetius, p. 565. so Ben Gersom; "they smarted", Broughton. q Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 24. r "Juniperi gravis umbra----" Virgil. Bucolic. Eclog. 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, “Beneath the broom-pea.” Noyes, “Under the thorns.” The Hebrew word חרול chârûl, occurs only here and in Zephaniah 2:9, and Proverbs 24:31, in each of which places it is rendered “nettles.” It is probably derived from חרל = חרר, to burn, to glow, and is given to nettles from the burning or prickling sensation which they produce. Either the word nettles, thistles, or thorns, would sufficiently answer to its derivation. It does not occur in the Arabic. Castell. Umbreit renders it, “unter Dornen - under thorns.”

They were gathered together - Vulgate, “They accounted it a delicacy to be in a thorn-hedge.” The word used here (ספח sâphach) means “to add;” and then to be added or assembled together. The idea is, that they were huddled together quite promiscuously in the wild-growing bushes of the desert. They had no home; no separate habitation. This description is interesting, not only as denoting the depth to which Job had been reduced when he was the object of contempt by such vagrants, but as illustrative of a state of society existing then.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.