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Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt

Job 30:7

In 11 translations

BSB
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
KJV
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
WEB
They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
ASV
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
LSV
They groan among shrubs, || They are gathered together under nettles.
YLT
Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
DBY
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
DRC
They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.
GNV
They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.
JPS
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.
LXXE
They will cry out among the rustling bushes.

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Original-language editions

WLC
בֵּין־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃
LXX-Br
Ἀναμέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 11:12But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
  • Job 6:5Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
  • Genesis 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

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