Job 30:7

"so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks."

Key Reflection

In Job 30:7, the phrase describes a place of distress and desolation where individuals experience God's judgment or their own dire circumstances, living among inhospitable valleys and in hidden, rocky caves that symbolize isolation and despair. This setting underscores the harsh reality of suffering and the bleakness experienced by those who have fallen from favor or faced divine retribution.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Among the bushes -Coverdale, “Upon the dry heath went they about crying.” The Hebrew word is the same which occurs inJob 30:4, and means bushes in general. They were heard in the shrubbery that grew in the desert. They brayed -ינהקוyinâhaqû. 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 inJob 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.

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