Job 30:8

Sons of senseless and nameless people, ¹  they were driven out of the land with whips. ² 

2Ki 8:18,27; 2Ch 22:3; Job 40:4; Ps 15:4; Ps 49:10-13; Pr 1:7,22; Pr 16:22; Isa 32:6; Jer 7:18; Mr 6:24

¹ tn The “sons of the senseless” (נָבָל, naval) means they were mentally and morally base and defective; and “sons of no-name” means without honor and respect, worthless (because not named).

² tn Heb “they were whipped from the land” (cf. ESV) or “they were cast out from the land” (HALOT 697 s.v. נכא). J. E. Hartley (Job [NICOT], 397) follows Gordis suggests that the meaning is “brought lower than the ground.”