Key Verse Spotlight
Job 30:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)”
Job 30:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.
They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, {in} caves of the earth, and {in} the rocks. {caves: Heb. holes}
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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