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Job 30:3

King James Version (KJV)

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Job 30:3

Verse 3 of 31

Scripture focus

For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:3 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 30:3

Theological / Devotional

Want and famine. In order to emphasize his own plight, Job goes into detail to show the wretchedness of these people who mock him.

Fleeing. This represents the translation of the LXX. The Hebrew word thus translated occurs only twice, here and in v. 17, where the participial form is rendered “sinews.”

More correctly it should read “gnawing,” which also seems to be its meaning here. These people were literally “gnawers of the desert.” They were reduced to the place where they gnawed the roots and shrubs found in the desert.

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