Job 30:3

They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

In Context

2Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

4They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.

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Cross References

Job 24:13These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15

Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →

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