Job 30:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

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    4They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

    5They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

    6They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

    7They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

  • Ps 107:4-5
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    4They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

    5Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

    5Like 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.

  • Lam 5:9
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    9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

  • Lam 4:9
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    9Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

  • Joel 1:17-20
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    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    18What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

    19O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

    20The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • Job 30:2
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    2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • Job 24:10
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    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

  • Ps 59:15
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    15Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

    22And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

  • Job 5:5
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    5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Job 15:28
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    28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

    6And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

  • Jer 2:6
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    6And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

  • Job 33:21
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    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Hab 3:17
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    17For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Ezek 34:5
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    5And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

  • Lam 4:5
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    5Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

  • Ezek 30:7
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    7And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

    18The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

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    18They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

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    19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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    15For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

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    34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

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    30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,