Job 30:5
From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
In Context
4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
6In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Daniel 4:32and from men they are driving thee away, and with the beast of the field [is] thy dwelling, the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it.
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 →