Job 30:3

For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?

4They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.

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Cross References

Job 24:13These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

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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