The Meaning of Job 30:6 Explained

Job 30:6

KJV: To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

YLT: In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

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

ASV: So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

To dwell  in the clifts  of the valleys,  [in] caves  of the earth,  and [in] the rocks. 

What does Job 30:6 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:6 mean?

In the clefts of the valleys [They had] to live [In] caves of the earth and the rocks
בַּעֲר֣וּץ נְחָלִ֣ים לִשְׁכֹּ֑ן חֹרֵ֖י עָפָ֣ר וְכֵפִֽים

בַּעֲר֣וּץ  In  the  clefts 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: עָרוּץ  
Sense: dreadful.
נְחָלִ֣ים  of  the  valleys 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: נַחַל 
Sense: torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley.
לִשְׁכֹּ֑ן  [They  had]  to  live 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: שָׁכַן  
Sense: to settle down, abide, dwell, tabernacle, reside.
חֹרֵ֖י  [In]  caves 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: חֹר  
Sense: hole, cave.
עָפָ֣ר  of  the  earth 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: עָפָר  
Sense: dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish.
וְכֵפִֽים  and  the  rocks 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural
Root: כֵּף  
Sense: rock, hollow of a rock.

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