Job 30:3

World English Bible (2000)

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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  • Job 24:5 : 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
  • Job 24:13-16 : 13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths. 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

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  • Job 30:4-7
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    4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

    5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

    6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

    7 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

  • Ps 107:4-5
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    4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert 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 all hide themselves.

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

  • 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed 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 seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

    18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

    19 Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

    20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • 3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • 10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • 24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • 15 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

    22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

  • 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • 12 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.

    6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

  • 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • 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, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

  • 21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • 17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • 5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

  • 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • 5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • 7 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 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

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

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

  • 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

  • 18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

  • 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • 15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

  • 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

  • 30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,