Job 30:3

One is childless in want and famine, 1 Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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, why had I the strength of their hands? 1 For them the full term of life was lost. 1

4Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, 1 Who had salt herbs for their food, 1 And were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; 1 Who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger. 1

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Cross References

Job 24:13Why then has he not visited these? 1 Forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, 1 And they knew not the way of righteousness, 1 Neither have they walked in their appointed paths? 1

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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