Job 30:3

For choser (want, lack) and hunger 1 they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste. 1

Orthodox Jewish 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

2Yea, what use was the koach of their hands to me, 1 since their vigor hath perished? 1

4They cut up mallow plants by the bushes, 1 and juniper roots for their lechem. 1

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Cross References

Job 24:13They are of those that are moredei ohr (rebelling ones against the light); 1 they know not the ways thereof, 1 nor abide in the paths thereof. 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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