Job 30:5
in Job 30They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
KJV
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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This verse in Job 30
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
They were driven forth from among men - As vagabonds and outcasts. They were regarded as unfit to live among the civilized and the orderly, and were expelled as nuisances. (They cried after them as after a thief.) - The inhabitants of the place where they lived drove them out with a loud outcry, as if they were thieves and robbers.
This site's exposition
They plucked mallow among the shrubs
on Job 30:4-6
“They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food”. Gill and Clarke read these as a bitter salt plant and a food of last resort. Banished “from among men” and “shouted down like thieves”, these fathers were treated as criminals.
This site's exposition
shouted down like thieves
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown render the Hebrew as a cry is raised. When these men raided villages, the people shouted them away as they would thieves. Barnes says they were banished as outcasts.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
Who carrying these same off from the valleys, when they found each of them, ran to them with clamour. Which persons if ever in sacred Revelation they seemingly discover things with sagacity, which while they do not understand, they fancy make for their statements, they directly scatter these vociferating them to their wretched hearers, whom they covet not the souls of but the substance. They 'carry them off from the valleys,' because with a high spirit they gather them from the lowly sayings of the Fathers.
He consequently shows that they did not have an abundance of even such cheap food as this, and that they find it with great effort. He expresses this in the next verse, "They uproot these things from enclosed valleys," for they gather them with great …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
They were driven from among men,....
They were such lying, thieving, lurking, mischievous people, that the best service the magistrates could do was to rid the country of them, while the very mob cried after them as after a thief. Away with such fellows from the earth; it is not fit they should live.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
they cried--that is, "a cry is raised." Expressing the contempt felt for this race by civilized and well-born Arabs. When these wild vagabonds make an incursion on villages, they are driven away, as thieves would be.
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
They were driven forth - They were persons whom no one would employ; they were driven away from the city; and if any of them appeared, the hue and cry was immediately raised up against them. The last clause Mr. Good translates, “They slunk away from them like a thief,” instead of “They cried after them,” etc.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| גֵּ֥ו | gev | [the] community | H1460 → | |
| יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ | yegorashu | they are driven away | H1644 → | |
| יָרִ֥יעוּ | yariu | people shout | H7321 → | |
| עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ | ʾaleimov | on them | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כַּגַּנָּֽב׃ | kaganav | like <the> thief | H1590 → |
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
גֵּ֥ו[the] community
gevH1460 →
יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּthey are driven away
yegorashuH1644 →
יָרִ֥יעוּpeople shout
yariuH7321 →
עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹon them
ʾaleimovH5921 →5755 times
כַּגַּנָּֽב׃like <the> thief
kaganavH1590 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Daniel 4:25You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven,…
it leads to
- Daniel 4:17
This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it…
- Jeremiah 27:5
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
- Psalms 83:18
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
- Daniel 2:21
He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
- Psalms 106:20
They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
- Daniel 4:17
Through
Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
it leads to
- Psalms 37:25
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
- Genesis 4:12–14
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
- Psalms 59:15
They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
- Psalms 37:25
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.