# 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. AT: "cried out like wild donkeys because they were hungry" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
# they gathered together under the nettles
"Nettles" are bushes with sharp thorns. This implies that they did not have a home.