KJV ORIGINAL
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
They made loud, harsh noises among the bushes; they huddled together under the thorny weeds.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is describing how these outcasts lived like wild animals, making animal sounds and hiding in the wilderness among thorns and weeds.
📚 Historical Context
Job is continuing his lament about how his social status has fallen, describing the lowly people who now mock him. In ancient Middle Eastern culture, being compared to those who lived like animals in the wilderness was deeply humiliating. These were people so poor and rejected by society that they survived by foraging and hiding in wild, uncomfortable places.
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