Job 30:5
They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;
American Standard 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 salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom 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 children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
Daniel 4:32and thou shalt be driven from men; and they dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over thee; until 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 →