Job 30:5

5 They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.

Job 30:5 in Other Translations

5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

5 They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.

5 They are driven from human society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

5 Outcasts from the community, cursed as dangerous delinquents.

5 They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;

5 They are driven from the community. People shout at them in the same way they shout at thieves.

5 They were expelled from human society; people shouted at them as [if they were] thieves.

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 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.

5 They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.

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

7 They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.