Verse 3

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

Referenced Verses

• Job 24:5 : 5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
• Job 24:13-16 : 13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. 15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; 16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
• Heb 11:38 : 38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.