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They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
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A Portrait of an Outcast
Commentators explain that the people described were not merely poor, but societal outcasts driven from towns for their criminal behavior. The community would literally shout after them as one would after a thief, both to shame them and to warn others. This was a public act of expulsion against vagrants and felons.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They were driven forth from among men - As vagabonds and outcasts. They were regarded as unfit to live among the civilized and the …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They were driven from among [men] From towns and cities, and all civil society, as unfit to be among them; not for a…
Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause do people have to be ambitious or proud of that which m…
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13th Century
Catholic
After listing the many prosperous things he had enjoyed in the past, Job now lists the adversities he was suffering. He begins by showing that, in …
