King James Version (KJV)
Job 30:3
“For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
Verse in context — 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.
2
Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
3
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
5
They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
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