Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
King James Version
In Context
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Daniel 4:32And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee 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 →