Job 30:6

30:6 so that they had to live

in the dry stream beds,

in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.


tn This use of the infinitive construct expresses that they were compelled to do something (see GKC 348-49 §114.h, k).

tn The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see GKC 431 §133.h).