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Job 30:7

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30:7They brayed17 like animals among the bushes

and were huddled together18 under the nettles.

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Footnotes

  1. 17 The verb נָהַק (nahaq) means “to bray.” It has cognates in Arabic, Aramaic, and Ugaritic, so there is no need for emendation here. It is the sign of an animal’s hunger. In the translation the words “like animals” are supplied to clarify the metaphor for the modern reader.
  2. 18 The Pual of the verb סָפַח (safakh, “to join”) also brings out the passivity of these people—“they were huddled together” (E. Dhorme, Job, 434).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Among the bushes they bray;

under the nettles they huddle together.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They brayed among the bushes

and huddled in the undergrowth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They bray among the shrubs;

they huddle beneath the thistles.

NLTNew Living Translation

They sound like animals howling among the bushes,

huddled together beneath the nettles.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They bray among the bushes;

they are gathered under the nettles.

KJV 1900King James Version

Among the bushes they brayed;

Under the nettles they were gathered together.