Job 30:3

They were thin from poverty and hunger; 1 they gnawed at the dry ground in the darkness of wilderness and desolation. 1

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

In Context

2Indeed, the strength of their fathers' hands, how could it have helped me— 1 men in whom the strength of their mature age had perished? 1

4They plucked saltwort and bushes' leaves; 1 the roots of the broom tree were their food. 1

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Cross References

Job 24:13Some of these wicked people rebel against the light; 1 they know not its ways, 1 nor do they stay in its 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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