Job 30:3 · KJV
“For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}”
— Job 30:3
Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.
Job 30 — Context
But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}
2Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?
3For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
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;)
Cross References
Job 24:5
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
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Hebrews 11:38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and {in} mountains, and {in} dens and caves of the earth.