Job 30:3

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

4They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

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Cross References

Job 24:13Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

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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