Job 30:5

They were driven out of the community.

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In The King James Version

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

In Context

4There they pick desert herbs and the leaves of bushes, and eat the roots of broom trees.

6People shouted after them as if they were thieves. They have to live in dangerous ravines, in caves and among the rocks.

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Cross References

Psalms 109:10May his children be homeless, wandering beggars, driven from their ruined houses.

Daniel 4:32You will be driven away from human society and you will live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like the cattle, and you will become soaked with the dew of heaven. You will be like this for seven times until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over human kingdoms, and that he gives them to whoever he chooses.”

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 →

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