Job 30:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
  • Job 24:13-16 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief. 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face. 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

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    4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

    5 They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief;

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

    7 Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they 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 live 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 donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

  • Lam 5:9
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    9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Lam 4:9
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    9 Those slain by the sword are better than those who die by hunger; for these waste away, stricken for want of the fruits of the field.

  • Joel 1:17-20
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    17 The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

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

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

    20 The animals of the field cry also to you: for the rivers are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

  • Job 30:2
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    2 Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished?

  • Joel 2:3
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    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Job 24:10
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    10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Mic 7:13
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    13 Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24 They shall be wasted 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.

  • Ps 59:15
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    15 Let them wander up and down for food, and grumble if they are not satisfied.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21 And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed 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 to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.

  • Job 5:5
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    5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Job 15:28
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    28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Amos 8:12
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    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 Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass.

    6 And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.

  • Jer 2:6
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    6 Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no one lived?

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

  • Job 33:21
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    21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones, that were not seen, stick out.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17 Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

  • Ezek 34:5
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    5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became food for all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10 For the mountains I will 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 birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

  • Lam 4:5
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    5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • Ezek 30:7
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    7 They will be desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

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    18 Their soul abhors all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death.

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    19 Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Heb 11:37
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    37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

  • Isa 21:15
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    15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

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    34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

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