Job 30:3

By want and hunger they are famished; They gnaw the dry desert, The darkness of desolate wastes.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Of what use to me would be even the strength of their hands, To whom old age is lost?

4They gather purslain among the bushes, And the root of the broom is their bread.

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Cross References

Job 24:13Others hate the light; They know not its ways, And abide not 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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