Job 30:3

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They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.

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  • Job 24:5 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.
  • Job 24:13-16 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways nor stay on its paths. 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief. 15 The adulterer waits for twilight, saying, 'No one will see me,' and he disguises his face. 16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, and on mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

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    4They pluck salt herbs from the bush, and the roots of broom trees are their food.

    5They are driven out from among society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

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    7Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

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    4They wandered in the wilderness, in a desolate place; they found no way to a city where they could settle.

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    9Those slain by the sword are better off than those dying of hunger, wasting away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.

  • Joel 1:17-20
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    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

    18How the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander in confusion because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

    19To you, Lord, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field.

    20Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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    17'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

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    2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

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    3Before them, fire devours; behind them, flames blaze. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is a desolate wilderness—nothing escapes them.

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    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

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    13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

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    24Wasted by famine, consumed by burning heat and bitter destruction, I will send against them the teeth of wild animals and the venom of creatures that crawl in the dust.

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    15They return at evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.

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    21Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

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