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Job 30

Job 30:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Among the bushes
siyach (Hebrew #7880)
a shoot (as if uttered or put forth), i.e. (generally) shrubbery
KJV usage: bush, plant, shrub.
Pronounce: see'-akh
Origin: from 7878
they brayed
nahaq (Hebrew #5101)
to bray (as an ass), scream (from hunger
KJV usage: bray.
Pronounce: naw-hak'
Origin: a primitive root
; under the nettles
charuwl (Hebrew #2738)
apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning to be prickly; properly, pointed, i.e. a bramble or other thorny weed
KJV usage: nettle.
Pronounce: khaw-rool'
Origin: or (shortened) charul {khaw-rool'}
they were gathered together
caphach (Hebrew #5596)
a primitive root; properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)
KJV usage: abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.
Pronounce: saw-fakh'
Origin: or saphach (Isaiah 3:17) {saw-fakh'}
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Ministry on This Verse

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brayed.
Job 6:5• 5Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder? (Job 6:5)
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Job 11:12• 12Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass. (Job 11:12)
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Gen. 16:12• 12And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren. (Gen. 16:12)
the nettles.{Charul} probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble:
so Vulgate renders it by {spina} or {sentis,} (Pr 24:31.
Zep 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."
• Croaking or braying as beasts—these outcasts pour their contempt upon him! It is a hideous picture, reminding us of One who in a far different spirit said, “I was the song of the drunkards” (Ps. 69:12). But in Job there is no turning to God in such unjust treatment. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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