KJVFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXX. It is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the…