OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Job 30:5

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They are driven out from among men.

They cry after them as after a thief,

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Job 30:5 in context

Job 30:2–8

2

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,

men in whom ripe age has perished?

3

They are gaunt from lack and famine.

They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

4

They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.

The roots of the broom tree are their food.

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They are driven out from among men.

They cry after them as after a thief,

6

so that they live in frightful valleys,

and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

7

They bray among the bushes.

They are gathered together under the nettles.

8

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men.

They were flogged out of the land.

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