Job 30:1-7
they that are Job 19:13-19, Job 29:8-10; 2Kgs 2:23; Isa 3:5 younger than I Heb. of fewer days than I whose Ps 35:15-16, Ps 69:12; Mark 14:65, Mark 15:17-20; Luke 23:14, Luke 23:18, Luke 23:35, Luke 23:39; Acts 17:5; Titus 1:12 solitary or, dark as the night, Job 24:13-16 fleeing into Job 24:5; Heb 11:38 in former time Heb. yesternight mallows The Hebrew malluach, in Arabic, malluch, and in Syriac mallucho, is probably the Lalima or Lalimos of the Greeks, and halimus of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten. juniper roots The Hebrew rothem, in Arabic, ratim, and in Spanish, retama, most probably signifies the genista or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia. for their meat 2Kgs 4:38-39; Amos 7:14; Luke 15:16 driven Gen 4:12-14; Ps 109:10; Dan 4:25, Dan 4:32-33 dwell Judg 6:2; 1Sam 22:1-2; Isa 2:19; Rev 6:15 caves Heb. holes brayed Job 6:5, Job 11:12; Gen 16:12 the nettles Charul probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble, so Vulgate renders it by spina or sentis, (Prov 24:31. Zeph 2:9). Celsius and Scheuchzer are inclined to think it the paliurus, a shrub growing sometimes to a considerable height in desert places. "One of the inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is," says Denon, "that it is difficult to remain in them, as nine tenths of the trees and plants are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment of the shadow which is so constantly desirable."
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