Job 30:3

Who suffer for want and famine in solitude; who flee into the wilderness [where all is] darkness, ruin, and desolation;

Leeser Tanakh

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, what possible use can the strength of their hands be unto me, over whom old age hath passed fruitlessly?

4Who crop off mallows by the bushes, and have broom-bush roots as their bread;

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Cross References

Job 24:13Yon men are of those that rebel against the light: they know not its ways, nor abide in its 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 →

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