Job 30:5
They were driven out from among people 1 who shouted after them as one would shout after a thief. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 saltwort and bushes' leaves; 1 the roots of the broom tree were their food. 1
6So they had to live in river valleys, 1 in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 1
Cross References
Psalms 109:10May his children wander about and beg, 1 asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home. 1
Daniel 4:32You will be driven away from people, and your home will be with the wild animals in the fields. You will be made to eat grass like an ox. Seven years will pass until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of people and he gives them to anyone 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 →