Job 30:5
Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
Daniel 4:32And they shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle and wild beasts: thou shalt eat grass like an ox, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in 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 →