Job 30:3
gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.
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- Job 24:5 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
- Job 24:13-16 : 13 There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask. 16 In the dark the robber breaks 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 mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
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17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
19To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.
20Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.
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2Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
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21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.
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10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.
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30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,