Job 30:3

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

Darby Translation

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, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

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Cross References

Job 24:13There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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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