They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Fools - i:e., the impious and abandoned (1 Samuel 25:25).
Base - Hebrew, nameless low-born rabble.
Viler than ... - rather, they were driven or beaten out х nikªauw (H5217), from naaka' (H5217) to beat] of the land. The Horites in Mount Seir (Genesis 14:6, with which cf. Genesis 36:20-21; Deuteronomy 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:22) were probably the aborigines, driven out by the tribe to which Job's ancestors belonged: their name means Troglodytae, or dwelling in caves. To these Job alludes here (Job 30:1-3) and in Job 24:4-8, which see.