12 The word גֵּו (gev) is an Aramaic term meaning “midst,” indicating “midst [of society].” But there is also a Phoenician word that means “community” ( 48).
13 The form simply is the plural verb, but it means those who drove them from society.
14 The text merely says “as thieves,” but it obviously compares the poor to the thieves.
15 This use of the infinitive construct expresses that they were compelled to do something (see §114.h, k).
16 The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see §133.h).
17 The verb נָהַק (nahaq) means “to bray.” It has cognates in Arabic, Aramaic, and Ugaritic, so there is no need for emendation here. It is the sign of an animal’s hunger. In the translation the words “like animals” are supplied to clarify the metaphor for the modern reader.
18 The Pual of the verb סָפַח (safakh, “to join”) also brings out the passivity of these people—“they were huddled together” (E. Dhorme, Job, 434).
19 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).
20 Heb “they were whipped from the land” (cf. ESV) or “they were cast out from the land” ( נכא). J. E. Hartley (Job [], ) follows Gordis suggests that the meaning is “brought lower than the ground.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They are driven out from human company;

they shout after them as after a thief.

In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,

in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Among the bushes they bray;

under the nettles they huddle together.

A senseless, a nameless brood,

they have been whipped out of the land.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They were banished from human society,

shouted at as if they were thieves.

They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

They brayed among the bushes

and huddled in the undergrowth.

A base and nameless brood,

they were driven out of the land.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They were banished from human society;

people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

They bray among the shrubs;

they huddle beneath the thistles.

Foolish men, without even a name.

They were forced to leave the land.

NLTNew Living Translation

They are driven from human society,

and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

So now they live in frightening ravines,

in caves and among the rocks.

They sound like animals howling among the bushes,

huddled together beneath the nettles.

They are nameless fools,

outcasts from society.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They were driven out from fellow people;

they shout at them as at a thief,

so that they dwell

in holes of the ground and in the rocks.

They bray among the bushes;

they are gathered under the nettles.

A senseless crowd, yes, a disreputable brood,

they were cast out from the land.

KJV 1900King James Version

They were driven forth from among men,

(They cried after them as after a thief;)

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys,

In caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Among the bushes they brayed;

Under the nettles they were gathered together.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men:

They were viler than the earth.

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