Job 30:5
They are driven forth from among [men] they cry after them as after a thief
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
6To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;
Daniel 4:32and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
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 →