A moment in scripture
Job 30:3
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For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 30:1
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.
- Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.