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Job 30:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. "

Job 30:3

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1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.

5 They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,

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Job 30:1

"“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs."

Job 30:2

"Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?"

Job 30:4

"They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food."

Job 30:5

"They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,"

Job 30:6

"so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks."

Job 30:7

"They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles."

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