Job 30:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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.
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. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job’s was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:— I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him. As it added much to his honour, in the day of his prosperity, that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. solitary--literally, “hard as a rock”; so translate, rather, “dried up,” emaciated with hunger. Job describes the rudest race of Bedouins of the desert [Umbreit]. fleeing--So the Septuagint. Better, as Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, “gnawers of the wilderness.” What they gnaw follows in Job 30:4. in former time--literally, the “yesternight of desolation and waste” (the most utter desolation; Eze…