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Job 30:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) "
Job 30:5
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For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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;)
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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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 30:3
"For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
Job 30:4
"Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
Job 30:6
"To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks."
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