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Job 30:6

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30:6so that they had to live15

in the dry stream beds,16

in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

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Footnotes

  1. 15 This use of the infinitive construct expresses that they were compelled to do something (see §114.h, k).
  2. 16 The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see §133.h).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,

in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

NLTNew Living Translation

So now they live in frightening ravines,

in caves and among the rocks.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

so that they dwell

in holes of the ground and in the rocks.

KJV 1900King James Version

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys,

In caves of the earth, and in the rocks.