Job 30:3

They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Revised Version 1895

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, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.

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Cross References

Job 24:13These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide 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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