John Trapp on Job 30:6

Verſe 6. To dwell in the clifts of the vallies] Like wilde beaſts and Serpents: which theſe idle perſons will rather chuſe to do, and ſuffer any hardſhip, then labour for their livings, and do good in their places; earning it before they eate, and contributing ſomething to the weal-publick, as Bees bring their honey to the common hive: This, thoſe that will not do, are worthily caſt-out, and made to dwell in the clifts, &c. In the time of Cato Cenſorius. when any one would be a Citizen of Rome, they took his hand betwixt theirs; and if it felt ſmooth and ſoft, they preſently as an idle vagabond, gave him his Mi[illegible: 1 letter]timus: but if hard and knotty, they forth with admitted him to dwell in their City. And if a malefactor were apprehended whoſe hands were labouring hands, his puniſhment ſhould be mitigated, though his Crime were grievous: as if otherwiſe, a ſevere puniſhment was inflicted for a light offence.