American Standard Version
"They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief; "
— Job 30:5, American Standard Version
“They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)”
“They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;”
“They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–”
“Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.”
“They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves”
“They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)”
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
They arechildren of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.