Job 30:5

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
forth	יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ ye.go.Ra.shu	H1644	to drive out from a possession · verb, pual imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
among	גֵּ֥ו gev	H1460	the back · noun, common masculine singular absolute
cried	יָרִ֥יעוּ ya.Ri.'u	H7321	to mar (especially by breaking) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
thief	כַּגַּנָּֽב ka.ga.Nav	H1590	a stealer · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Daniel 4:25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen,…
Genesis 4:12-14 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Psalms 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Daniel 4:32-33 And 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 s…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 30:1-14

Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction: - I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him. As it added much to his honour, in the day of his prosperity, that princes and nobles showed him respect and paid a deference to him, so it added no less to his disgrace in his adversity that he was spurned by the footmen, and trampled upon by those that were not only every way his inferiors, but were the meanest and most contemptible of all mankind. None can be…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:5

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.

John Gill on Job 30:5

They were driven from among men,.... From towns and cities, and all civil society, as unfit to be among them; not for any good, it may be observed, but for crimes that they had done, like our felons, and transported persons: they cried after them as after a thief; as they were driven and run along, the people called after them, saying, there goes a thief; which they said by way of abhorrence of them, and for the shame of them, and that all might be warned and cautioned against them; and, generally speaking, such as are idle and slothful, and thereby become miserable, are pilferers and thieves.

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 30:5-8

5 They are driven forth from society, They cry after them as after a thief. 6 In the most dismal valleys they must dwell, In holes of the earth and in rocks. 7 Among the bushes they croak, Under nettles are they poured forth, 8 Sons of fools, yea sons of base men: They are driven forth out of the land! - If, coming forth from their lurking-places, they allow themselves to be seen in the villages of the plain or in the towns, they are driven forth from among men, e medio pelluntur (to use a Ciceronian phrase). גּו (Syr. gau, Arab. gaww, guww) is that which is internal, here the circle of social life, the organized human community. This expression also is Hebraeo-Arabic; for if one contrasts…

The Church Fathers

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. Which same whilst they exult to have found making for their cause, they run to them with outcries, because every thing that they have a perception of, by the appetite of praise they strive to cry abroad to the ears of men.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX

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Job 30:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 30:1-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:5

John Gill on Job 30:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 30:5-8

The Church Fathers

Job 30:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 30:1-14

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:5

John Gill on Job 30:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 30:5-8

The Church Fathers

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 30:5-6

Rashi on Job 30:5