Job 30:5
They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Daniel 4:32And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.
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 →