King James Version
Job 30:7 in the King James Version says “Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.” — study this verse from Job chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.”
Job 30:7 · KJV
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. caves: Heb. holes
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. base: Heb. men of no name
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
KJV Study — Public Domain
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“Among the bushes”
H7880a shoot (as if uttered or put forth), i.e., (generally) shrubbery
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“they were gathered together”
H5596properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)
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