Job 30:5 (BSB)
They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,
Commentary on Job 30:5
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 30:1-14: Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction: - I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 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...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 30:5: they cried--that is, "a cry is raised." Expressing the contempt felt for this race by civilized and well-born Arabs. When these wild vagabonds make an incursion on villages, they are driven away, as thieves would be.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 30:5: They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;) (d) Job shows that those who mocked him in his affliction were like their fathers, wicked and lewd fellows, such as he here describes.