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John Gill's Exposition on Job 30:7
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Among the bushes they brayed, etc.] Like wild asses; so Sephorno, to which wicked men are fitly compared, (<181112>Job 11:12); or they “cried”, or “groaned” f1081, and “moaned” among the bushes, where they lay lurking; either they groaned through cold, or want of food; for the wild ass brays not but when in want, (<180605>Job 6:5); under the nettles they were gathered together; or “under thistles” f1082, as some, or “under thorns”, as f1083 others; under thorn hedges, where they lay either for shelter, or to hide themselves, or to seize upon a prey that might pass by; and so were such sort of persons as in the parable in (<421423>Luke 14:23); it not being usual for nettles to grow so high as to cover persons, at least they are not a proper shelter, and much less an eligible one; though some render the words, they were “pricked” f1084, blistered and wounded, a word derived from this being used for the scab of leprosy, (<031306>Leviticus 13:6-8); and so pustules and blisters are raised by the sting of nettles: the Targum is, “under thorns they were associated together;” under thorn hedges, as before observed; and if the juniper tree is meant in (<183004>Job 30:4), they might be said to be gathered under thorns when under that; since, as Pliny f1085 says, it has thorns instead of leaves; and the shadow of it, according to the poet f1086, is very noxious and disagreeable.
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