Job 30:3

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

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In The King James Version

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

In Context

2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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Cross References

Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on 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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