Job 30:5

5 They were driven away from society. They were shouted at as if they were robbers.

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 weak because they were needy and hungry. They wandered through dry and empty deserts at night.

4 Among the bushes they gathered salty plants. They ate the roots of desert trees.

5 They were driven away from society. They were shouted at as if they were robbers.

6 They were forced to live in dry stream beds. They had to stay among rocks and in holes in the ground.

7 Like donkeys they cried out among the bushes. There they crowded together and hid.