Job 30:5
They are driven out from the midst of men.They cry after them as after a thief;
New Heart English Bible
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 herbs by the bushes.The roots of the broom are their food.
6So that they dwell in frightful valleys,and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10Let his children be wandering beggars.Let them be sought from their ruins.
Daniel 4:32and you shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field; you shall be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he wants."
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 →