Job 30:5
They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.
6so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.
Daniel 4:32And thou shall be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Thou shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of me
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →