Job 30:3

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children.
  • Job 24:13-16 : 13 These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

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    6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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    4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.

    5Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

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    4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

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    9They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

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    17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

    18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

    19O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

    20Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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    17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

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    2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

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    3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.

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    10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

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    10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

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