Job 30:3

In want and hunger, they were lean,—who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;

4Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;

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Cross References

Job 24:13They, have become rebels against the light,—they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they 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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