Job 30:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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    4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

    5They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

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

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

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    4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

    5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

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

    5Behold, [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.

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

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    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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    17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn 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 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.

    20The 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.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

  • Job 30:2
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    2Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

  • Joel 2:3
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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 nothing shall escape them.

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

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

  • Deut 32:24
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    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.

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

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    21And 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.

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    10She 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.

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    5Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

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    6Neither 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?

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    10For 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.

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