Job 30:5
Who are driven forth from among [men], who are shouted after as though they were thieves,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4Who crop off mallows by the bushes, and have broom-bush roots as their bread;
6To dwell in the caverns of the valleys, in holes of the earth, and on naked cliffs.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his children be continually moving about, and beg, and let them seek [their bread] out of their ruined places.
Daniel 4:32(4:29) And from men will they drive thee away, and with the beasts of the field shall thy dwelling be; herbs like oxen will they suffer thee to eat, and seven times shall elapse over thee: until thou wilt know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he pleaseth.
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 →