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Adam Clarke Commentary
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.
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Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:/
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole 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.
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Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,.... Or "brooks"
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.
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Gill, John. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They are forced “to dwell.”
cliffs of the valleys — rather, “in the gloomy valleys”; literally, “in the gloom of the valleys,” or wadies. To dwell in valleys is, in the East, a mark of wretchedness. The troglodytes, in parts of Arabia, lived in such dwellings as caves.
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Trapp Complete Commentary
Job 30:6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
Ver. 6. To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys] Like wild beasts and serpents; which these idle persons will rather choose to do, and suffer any hardship, than labour for their livings, and do good in their places; earning it before they eat, and contributing something to the public welfare, as bees bring their honey to the common hive; this, those that will not do, are worthily cast out, and made to dwell in the cliffs, &c. In the time of Cato Censorius, when any one would be a citizen of Rome, they took his hand between theirs; and if it felt smooth and soft, they presently, as an idle vagabond, gave him his dimissal; but if hard and knotty, they forthwith admitted him to dwell in their city. And if a malefactor were apprehended whose hands were labouring hands, his punishment should be mitigated, though his crime were grievous; as if otherwise, a severe punishment was inflicted for a light offence.
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible
As unworthy of human society, and for their beggary and dishonesty suspected and avoided of all men.
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
6.Clefts of the valleys — Literally, Horror of the gorges. Dwelling in valleys, Umbreit says, is in the East a mark of poverty and wretchedness.
Caves — Hhorim, as in the margin, holes of the earth, whence the word Horites, those who dwell in holes and caves — the aborigines of Idumaea. (Deuteronomy 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:22.) See note Job 24:2. The treatment that they and their ancestors had received at the hand of their conquerors led them to improve every opportunity of revenge, as is evident from their persecution of Job, whom misfortune had thrown into their power. Then, too, fallen human nature takes pleasure in maltreating those who have fallen from a higher plane to that of a lower one. Wolves devour a wolf when no longer capable of self-defence.
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Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https:/
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
Gravel of the torrents. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "in the rocks," living like the Troglodites. (Haydock)
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Mark Dunagan Commentary on the Bible
"Since they are not welcome in any community, they live in the dreadful ravines among the rocks. Job bitterly relates how even these people taunt him, now that he is also an outcast living on a dunghill" (p. 295). Even these people think they are better than me!
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
cliffs. = ravines; or, most dreadful ravines.
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Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
They are forced to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys - rather, 'in the gloomy (literally, gloom of) valleys,' or wadys [ ba`
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https:/
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.- dwell
- Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 22:1,2; Isaiah 2:19; Revelation 6:15
- caves
- Heb. holes.
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Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on Job 30:6". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:/
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