Job 30:5

5 On les chasse du milieu des hommes; on crie après eux comme après un larron;

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 Exténués par la disette et la faim, ils broutent les lieux arides, depuis longtemps désolés et déserts.

4 Ils cueillent l'herbe sauvage près des buissons, et la racine des genêts est leur nourriture.

5 On les chasse du milieu des hommes; on crie après eux comme après un larron;

6 Ils habitent dans des torrents affreux, dans les trous de la terre, et parmi les rochers.

7 On les entend braire dans les buissons, ils s'étendent pêle-mêle sous les chardons;