Job 30:5
They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.
6In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, 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 4:32(4-29) And thou shalt be driven from men, and thy 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 →