Job 30:3

With want and with harsh famine, || They are gnawing a dry place [in] the recent night, || [In] desolation and ruin,

Literal Standard 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

2Also—the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them old age has perished.

4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, || And their food [is] root of broom trees.

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Cross References

Job 24:13They have been those rebelling against light, || They have not discerned His ways, || Nor abided in 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 →

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