Job 30:5
They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
6They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.
Cross References
Daniel 4:32And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him. For he acts according to his own will, with the inhabitants of the earth just as with the holy inhabitants of heaven. And there is no one who can resist his hand, or say to him, “Why have you done this?”
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 →