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- Job
- Chapter 30
- Verse 5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Barnes' Notes
They were driven forth from among men - As vagabonds and outcasts. They were regarded as unfit to live among the civilized and the orderly, and were expelled as nuisances. (They cried after them as…
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…
Such creatures when they approach civilized dwellings are driven forth and pursued with cries as men do a thief.
They are driven forth from among men,
They cry after them as after a thief,
And they…
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