What Does Job 30:6 Mean in the King James?
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “dwell” also grows into “neighbor” and “tabernacle,” so even these caves are named as a habitation.
THE MEANING
The verse names a human life settled in the earth’s fractures: valley clefts, caves, and bare rock. Even here, the word is “dwell”, a settled habitation, not a passing hiding place. The line holds the severity plainly: the ground itself has become home.
THE ROOT
לָשְׁכֹּן
lashkon
GROWS FROM
שכן
shakan
to settle, dwell, or abide
“dwell” in this verse is lashkon. This word comes from the same root as שָׁכֵן (shakhen), “neighbor,” and מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan), “dwelling place” or “tabernacle.” Hebrew holds dwelling and nearness in one word-family, so even a cave in the valley is named as a habitation.
ALSO GROWS
shakhen: neighbor; one who dwells nearby
שָׁכֵן
The shared root connects dwelling with nearness: to dwell is to have a place among others, even when the place is a cleft in the earth.
mishkan: dwelling place; tabernacle
מִשְׁכָּן
The same root names a place of abiding, showing that the word for dwelling remains the same whether the shelter is a tabernacle or a cave.
THE PATTERN
When people are pressed by danger or exclusion, caves and rock clefts become places of hiding and dwelling.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.THE THREAD
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.Hebrews uses the same earth-cave landscape for people it says the world is not worthy of. Their harsh shelter names where they dwell, not what they are worth.
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