Job 30:3
They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
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In Context
2the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
4And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
Cross References
Job 24:13They have been rebellious against the light; they have not known his ways, nor have they returned by his paths.
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 →