Job 30:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:5 : 5 Complaints Reflect Suffering“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox bellow over its fodder?
  • Job 11:12 : 12 But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

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  • Job 30:3-6
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    3gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

    4By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

    5They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

  • Job 30:8
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    8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

  • Isa 7:19
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    19All of them will come and make their home in the ravines between the cliffs, and in the crevices of the cliffs, in all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering holes.

  • Job 40:21-22
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    72%

    21Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

    22The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Job 30:1
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    1Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

  • Joel 1:17-18
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    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

    18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Job 24:4-6
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    4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Isa 34:13-14
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    13Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.

    14Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; wild goats will bleat to one another. Yes, nocturnal animals will rest there and make for themselves a nest.

  • Hos 9:6
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    6No Escape for the Israelites This Time! Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure– thorn bushes will occupy their homes.

  • Job 38:40
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    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Isa 7:24-25
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    69%

    24With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers.

    25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

  • Prov 30:26-27
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    26rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;

    27locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

  • Hos 7:14
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    14They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

  • Job 37:8
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    8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • Judg 9:14
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    14“So all the trees said to the thornbush,‘You come and be our king!’

  • Jer 14:6
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    6Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

  • Job 6:5
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    5Complaints Reflect Suffering“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox bellow over its fodder?

  • Ps 57:6
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    6They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)

  • Job 40:13
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    13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

  • Isa 15:7
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    7For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

  • Job 24:8
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    8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

  • Isa 32:13
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    13Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.

  • Isa 1:29
    68%

    29Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

  • Prov 24:31
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    31I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • Isa 56:9
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    9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • Mic 7:4
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    4The best of them is like a thorn; their godly are like a thorn bush. Woe to your watchmen; your appointed punishment is on the way. The time of their confusion is now.

  • Jer 51:38
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    38The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

  • Heb 6:8
    67%

    8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

  • Jer 10:21
    67%

    21For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the LORD’s advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.

  • Job 41:30
    67%

    30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • Isa 37:27
    67%

    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Isa 30:6
    67%

    6This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

  • Ps 104:7
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    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Joel 2:5
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    5They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.