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Job 30:5

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 30:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

They were driven forth from among men. Weak races retreat before strong ones, who occupy their lands, and whose will they do not dare to dispute. They are not intentionally "driven out," for the strong raecs would gladly make them their drudges; but they retire into the most inaccessible regions, as the primitive population has done in India and elsewhere.

They cried after them as after a thief. Outcast tribes naturally, and almost necessarily, become robber-tribes. Deprived of their productive lands, and driven into rocky deserts, want makes them thieves and marauders.

Then those who have made them what they are vilify and decry them.

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