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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 30:7

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Job30:7

7. Among the bushes they brayed , under the nettles they were gathered together.

Like the wild Asses, Iob 6. 5. for hunger or thirst.

Which seem not proper [illegible: 1+ letters]or that use. This Hebrew word is used but twice in Scripture, and it is acknowledged both by Iewish and Christian Writers, that the signification of the Hebrew words which express Plants, or Beasts, or Stones, &c. is very uncertain; and therefore this is by others, and may well be understood of some kind of Thorns: And so this is the same thing with the bushes in the former Branch of the Verse, under which they hid themselves, that they might not be discovered when they were sought out for justice.

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