Job 30:5 Meaning and Explanation
“They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)”
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Read Full Chapter →Cast out from human society, these men were shouted down and chased away as though they were thieves.
What Does Job 30:5 Mean?
Job continues his portrait of the outcasts: expelled from the company of ordinary people, hounded with shouts as one would chase a thief. They lived under suspicion and rejection, unwelcome wherever settled folk dwelt. This is the lineage of those who now make sport of Job.
The image of being driven out, treated as a criminal though guilty of nothing but poverty, carries its own quiet sorrow. Job will soon find himself an outcast too, shunned and spat upon, and so his words gather a deeper poignancy. Scripture remembers the rejected. The Lord himself was "despised and rejected of men," and in that fellowship of suffering the believer finds that no shame endured for righteousness is wasted in God's sight.
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What does Job 30:5 mean?
Cast out from human society, these men were shouted down and chased away as though they were thieves.