Job 30:5

King James Version

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
They are driven from human society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

English Revised Version
They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.

Update Bible Version
They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;

New Century Version
They were forced to live away from people; people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

New English Translation
They were banished from the community— people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves—

Webster's Bible Translation
They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief;)

World English Bible
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

Amplified Bible
"They are driven from the community; They shout after them as after a thief.

English Standard Version
They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whiche men rauyschiden these thingis fro grete valeis; and whanne thei hadden foundun ony of alle, thei runnen with cry to tho.

Berean Standard Bible
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

Contemporary English Version
and they are run out of towns, as though they were thieves.

American Standard Version
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

Bible in Basic English
They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

Complete Jewish Bible
They are driven away from society, with men shouting after them as after a thief,

Darby Translation
They are driven forth from among [men]—they cry after them as after a thief—

Easy-to-Read Version
They are forced away from other people, who shout at them as if they were thieves.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.

King James Version (1611)
They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)

New Life Bible
They are driven away from people. Men call out against them as if they were robbers.

New Revised Standard
They are driven out from society; people shout after them as after a thief.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They were chased forth fro among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.

George Lamsa Translation
They were forced by bare necessities, like a thief swept off his feet,

Good News Translation
Everyone drove them away with shouts, as if they were shouting at thieves.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of the midst, were they driven, men shouted after them, as after a thief;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

Revised Standard Version
They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when they were dryuen foorth, men cryed after them as it had ben afafter a thiefe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thieves have risen up against me,

Christian Standard Bible®
They were banished from human society;people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

Hebrew Names Version
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

Lexham English Bible
They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as at a thief,

Literal Translation
they are driven from the midst; they shouted against them as a thief;

Young's Literal Translation
From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And when they were dryuen forth, men cried after them, as it had bene after a thefe.

New American Standard Bible
"They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,

New King James Version
They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,

Legacy Standard Bible
They are driven from the community;They shout against them as against a thief,

Contextual Overview

¹ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. ² Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? ³ For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. ⁴ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. ⁵ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) ⁶ To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. ⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. ⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ⁹ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ¹⁰ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

driven: Genesis 4:12-14, Psalms 109:10, Daniel 4:25, Daniel 4:32, Daniel 4:33

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:2 - breaking Isaiah 2:10 - Enter

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 thief; which they said by way of abhorrence of them, and for the shame of them, and that all might be warned and cautioned against them; and, generally speaking, such as are idle and slothful, and thereby become miserable, are pilferers and thieves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 after a thief.) - The inhabitants of the place where they lived drove them out with a loud outcry, as if they were thieves and robbers. A class of persons are here described who were mere vagrants and plunderers, and who were not allowed to dwell in civilized society, and it was one of the highest aggravations of the calamities of Job, that he was now treated with derision by such outcasts.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 30:5. They were driven forth — They were persons whom no one would employ; they were driven away from the city; and if any of them appeared, the hue and cry was immediately raised up against them. The last clause Mr. Good translates, "They slunk away from them like a thief," instead of "They cried after them," &c.