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Job 30:3 Cross-References
Explore 3 cross-references for Job 30:3 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 30 verse 3 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 30:3
For want and famine they were solitary (בְּחֶסֶר וּבְכָפָן גַּלְמוּד)—The triple Hebrew nouns intensify their desperate condition: cheser (חֶסֶר, lack/want), kafan (כָפָן, famine/hunger), and galmud (גַּלְמוּד, desolate/solitary). The word galmud conveys barrenness and abandonment. Fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste (הָעֹרְקִים צִיָּה אֶמֶשׁ שׁוֹאָה וּמְשֹׁאָה)—They 'gnaw' (עֹרְקִים) the dry ground (צִיָּה), a vivid image of eating dirt from starvation.Job describes human beings reduced to animal existence, expelled from community into the midbar (wilderness). This e...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 30:3
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“as wild donkeys in the desert”
“wandering in deserts”