Job 30:3

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

World English Bible Classic

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 is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.

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Cross References

Job 24:13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay 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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