KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 30:7–9
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Job 30:7
7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
7Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together.
Job 30:8
8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
8 They were children of fooles, yea children of †base men: they were viler then the earth.
- Heb. men of no name.
Job 30:9
9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
9*And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word.
- Psal. 35.15. and 69.12.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:7
Shrubs or clusters of shrubs.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To pound in a mortar.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 30:8
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons lacking wisdom or sound judgment, especially in moral or spiritual conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Low in place, rank, condition, or character; also a foundation or lower supporting part.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
More base, shameful, contemptible, or dishonourable.
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The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:9
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A common saying or proverb, often one expressing reproach.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 7
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Open the full verse study12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
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Open the full verse study12For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
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Open the full verse study5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
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Open the full verse study6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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Open the full verse study18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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Open the full verse study4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
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Open the full verse study24And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
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Open the full verse study22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Open the full verse study7¶ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Open the full verse study3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.
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Open the full verse study18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study27And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
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Open the full verse study4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
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Open the full verse study10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
12Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
13This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Open the full verse study63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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Open the full verse study14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Open the full verse study4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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Open the full verse study15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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Open the full verse study11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
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Open the full verse study14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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