Job 30:5
They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Daniel 4:32You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
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 →