Verse 3

gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

Referenced Verses

• 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.