Job 30:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are living on the slopes of the wadis,among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Hebrew Names Version
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the eretz and of the rocks.

King James Version
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

English Standard Version
In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

New Century Version
They lived in dried-up streambeds, in caves, and among the rocks.

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

Amplified Bible
"They must dwell on the slopes of wadis And in holes in the ground and in rocks.

New American Standard Bible
So that they live on the slopes of ravines, In holes in the ground and among the rocks.

World English Bible
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.

Legacy Standard Bible
So that they dwell in the slopes of the valleys,In holes of the dust and of the rocks.

Berean Standard Bible
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Contemporary English Version
Their only homes are ditches or holes between rocks,

Complete Jewish Bible
to live in gullies and vadis, in holes in the ground and caves in the rocks.

Darby Translation
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:

Easy-to-Read Version
They must live in the dry riverbeds, hillside caves, and holes in the ground.

George Lamsa Translation
Fleeing to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, in crevices,

Good News Translation
They had to live in caves, in holes dug in the sides of cliffs.

Lexham English Bible
so that they dwell in holes of the ground and in the rocks.

Literal Translation
they dwell in the chasms of the torrents, in the holes of the earth, and in rocks.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their dwellinge was beside foule brokes, yee in the caues & dennes of the earth.

American Standard Version
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Bible in Basic English
They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

King James Version (1611)
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their dwelling was in the cleftes of brookes, yea in the caues and dennes of the earth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

English Revised Version
In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei dwelliden in deseertis of strondis, and in caues of erthe, ethir on grauel, `ethir on cley.

Update Bible Version
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Webster's Bible Translation
To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

New King James Version
They had to live in the clefts of the valleys, In caves of the earth and the rocks.

New Living Translation
So now they live in frightening ravines, in caves and among the rocks.

New Life Bible
So they live in valleys made by floods, in caves of the earth and of the rocks.

New Revised Standard
In the gullies of wadis they must live, in holes in the ground, and in the rocks.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

Revised Standard Version
In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Young's Literal Translation
In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So that they dwell in dreadful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Contextual Overview

¹ "But no longer. Now I'm the butt of their jokes— young ruffians! whippersnappers! Why, I considered their fathers mere inexperienced pups. But they are worse than dogs—good for nothing, stray, mangy animals, Half-starved, scavenging the back alleys, howling at the moon; Homeless guttersnipes chewing on old bones and licking old tin cans; Outcasts from the community, cursed as dangerous delinquents. Nobody would put up with them; they were driven from the neighborhood. You could hear them out there at the edge of town, yelping and barking, huddled in junkyards, A gang of beggars and no-names, thrown out on their ears. ⁹"But now I'm the one they're after, mistreating me, taunting and mocking. They abhor me, they abuse me. How dare those scoundrels—they spit in my face! Now that God has undone me and left me in a heap, they hold nothing back. Anything goes. They come at me from my blind side, trip me up, then jump on me while I'm down. They throw every kind of obstacle in my path, determined to ruin me— and no one lifts a finger to help me! They violate my broken body, trample through the rubble of my ruined life. Terrors assault me— my dignity in shreds, salvation up in smoke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

dwell: Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 22:1, 1 Samuel 22:2, Isaiah 2:19, Revelation 6:15

caves: Heb. holes

Reciprocal: Isaiah 2:10 - Enter Isaiah 2:21 - go

Cross-References

Genesis 30:14
One day during the wheat harvest Reuben found some mandrakes in the field and brought them home to his mother Leah. Rachel asked Leah, "Could I please have some of your son's mandrakes?"

Genesis 30:16
When Jacob came home that evening from the fields, Leah was there to meet him: "Sleep with me tonight; I've bartered my son's mandrakes for a night with you." So he slept with her that night. God listened to Leah; she became pregnant and gave Jacob a fifth son. She said, "God rewarded me for giving my maid to my husband." She named him Issachar (Bartered). Leah became pregnant yet again and gave Jacob a sixth son, saying, "God has given me a great gift. This time my husband will honor me with gifts—I've given him six sons!" She named him Zebulun (Honor). Last of all she had a daughter and named her Dinah.

Genesis 30:35
But that very day Laban removed all the mottled and spotted billy goats and all the speckled and spotted nanny goats, every animal that had even a touch of white on it plus all the black sheep and placed them under the care of his sons. Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Meanwhile Jacob went on tending what was left of Laban's flock.

Genesis 35:25
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau." Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since." They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob. Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan. He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother. And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak). God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)." God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House). They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor—hard, hard labor. When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid—you have another boy." With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune). Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone." Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram. Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. Isaac was now 180 years old. Isaac breathed his last and died—an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.

Genesis 46:23
Dan's son: Hushim.

Deuteronomy 33:22
Dan: "Dan is a lion's cub leaping out of Bashan."

Psalms 43:1
Clear my name, God; stick up for me against these loveless, immoral people. Get me out of here, away from these lying degenerates. I counted on you, God. Why did you walk out on me? Why am I pacing the floor, wringing my hands over these outrageous people?

Jeremiah 13:24
"I'll blow these people away— like wind-blown leaves. You have it coming to you. I've measured it out precisely." God 's Decree. "It's because you forgot me and embraced the Big Lie, that so-called god Baal. I'm the one who will rip off your clothes, expose and shame you before the watching world. Your obsessions with gods, gods, and more gods, your goddess affairs, your god-adulteries. Gods on the hills, gods in the fields— every time I look you're off with another god. O Jerusalem, what a sordid life! Is there any hope for you!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,.... Or "brooks" l, in such hollow places as were made by floods and streams of waters:

[in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks; where they betook themselves for fear of men, and through shame, being naked and miserable not fit to be seen: Job has respect to the Horites and Troglodytes, his neighbours, who dwelt in such places chiefly.

l נחלים "torrentium", Tigurine version, Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys - The word here rendered “cliffs” (ערוץ ‛ârûts) denotes rather “horror,” or something “horrid,” and the sense here is, that they dwelt in “the horrer of valleys;” that is, in horrid valleys. The idea is that of deep and frightful glens, where wild beasts ranged, far from the abodes of men, and surrounded by frightful wastes. The word rendered “valleys” (נחל nachal) means properly a brook, stream, water-course - what is now called a wady; a place where the winter torrents run, but which is usually dry in summer; see the notes at Job 6:15.

In caves of the earth - Margin, as in Hebrew “holes.” Septuagint “Whose houses are - πρῶγλαι πετρῶν trōglai petrōn - caverns of the rocks;” that is, who are “Troglodytes.” Caves furnished a natural dwelling for the poor and the outcast, and it is well known that it was not uncommon in Egypt, and in the deserts of Arabia, to occupy such caves as a habitation; see Diod. Sic. Lib. iii. xiv. and Strabo, Lib. 16,

And in the rocks - The caverns of the rocks. Dr. Richardson found a large number of such dwellings in the vicinity of Thebes, many of which were large and beautifully formed and sculptured with many curious devices. Mr. Rich, also, saw a large number of such caves not far from Mousal. Residence in Koordistan, vol. ii. p. 94.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 30:6. To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys — They were obliged to take shelter in the most dangerous, out-of-the-way, and unfrequented places. This is the meaning.