Job 30:5

5 "They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,

Job 30:5 Meaning and Commentary

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.

Job 30:5 In-Context

3 "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

5 "They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,

6 So that they dwell in dreadful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

7 "Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.