# Connecting Statement:

Job continues to talk about the fathers of the mockers.

# brayed like donkeys

Job speaks of the men crying out in hunger as if they were wild donkeys making a loud noise. Alternate translation: "cried out like wild donkeys because they were hungry" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])

# they gathered together under the nettles

"Nettles" are bushes with sharp thorns. This implies that they did not have a home.