Key Verse Spotlight
Job 30:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“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
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}
Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?
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}
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.
They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)
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