Job 30:6

6 Nobody would put up with them; they were driven from the neighborhood.

Job 30:6 Meaning and Commentary

Job 30:6

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys
Or "brooks" F12, in such hollow places as were made by floods and streams of waters:

[in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks;
where they betook themselves for fear of men, and through shame, being naked and miserable not fit to be seen: Job has respect to the Horites and Troglodytes, his neighbours, who dwelt in such places chiefly.


FOOTNOTES:

F12 (Mylxn) "torrentium", Tigurine version, Pagninus, Montanus

Job 30:6 In-Context

4 Homeless guttersnipes chewing on old bones and licking old tin cans;
5 Outcasts from the community, cursed as dangerous delinquents.
6 Nobody would put up with them; they were driven from the neighborhood.
7 You could hear them out there at the edge of town, yelping and barking, huddled in junkyards,
8 A gang of beggars and no-names, thrown out on their ears.
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