This collective noun appears only in Job 30:12, referring to a contemptible mob or rabble that rises up against Job. The term, possibly meaning 'brood' or 'offspring' as a collective, carries strongly negative connotations in context. Job is describing how social outcasts—people he once considered beneath contempt—now feel free to mock and abuse him. The word emphasizes the low quality of his tormenters: not respectable citizens but a worthless mob, the 'brood' of society's margins. This adds injury to insult in Job's lament: he has fallen so low that even the dregs of society dare to harass him.