Job 30:5

5 They were forced to live away from people; people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

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 They were thin from hunger and wandered the dry and ruined land at night.

4 They gathered desert plants among the brush and ate the root of the broom tree.

5 They were forced to live away from people; people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

6 They lived in dried up streambeds, in caves, and among the rocks.

7 They howled like animals among the bushes and huddled together in the brush.