Job 30:3

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

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

In Context

2Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?

4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

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Cross References

Job 24:13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide 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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