Job 30:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
  • Job 24:13-16 : 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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  • Job 30:4-7
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    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 thief;)

    6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

    7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

  • Ps 107:4-5
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    4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

    5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

    5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

  • 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

  • Joel 1:17-20
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    17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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

    19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

    20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

  • 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

  • 3 A 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 nothing shall escape them.

  • 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • 13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • 15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

    22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

  • 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

  • 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

    6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

  • 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  • 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

  • 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

  • 5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

  • 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • 5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

  • 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

  • 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

  • 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

  • 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  • 30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,