Job 30:3
in Job 30Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
KJV
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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This verse in Job 30
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThey were ready to starve, for they would not dig, and to beg they were ashamed. Had they been brought to necessity by the providence of God, their neighbours would have sought them out as proper objects of charity and would have relieved them; but, being brought into straits by their own slothfulness and wastefulness, nobody was forward to relieve them.
This site's exposition
have me in derision
on Job 30:1-3
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision opens the reversal panel with the social order upended, men Job says he would have disdained to set with the dogs of his flock now mocking him openly. Henry reads the shift from chapter 29's princes falling silent to this chapter's youths jeering as the same honor described from its opposite end, so that the two chapters form one continuous fall. Whereto might the strength of their hands profit me identifies these mockers as sons of men already broken by want and famine, driven to the wilderness in desolation.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּחֶ֥סֶר | becheser | in poverty | H2639 → | |
| וּבְכָפָ֗ן | uvekhafan | and in hunger | H3720 → | |
| גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד | galmud | barren | H1565 → | 4 times |
| הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים | haorekim | the [ones who] gnaw | H6207 → | |
| צִיָּ֑ה | tziyah | a dry region | H6723 → | |
| אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ | ʾemesh | yesterday of | H570 → | |
| שׁוֹאָ֥ה | shoah | ruin | H7722 → | 13 times |
| וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃ | umeshoah | and desolation | H4875 → |
בְּחֶ֥סֶרin poverty
becheserH2639 →
וּבְכָפָ֗ןand in hunger
uvekhafanH3720 →
גַּ֫לְמ֥וּדbarren
galmudH1565 →4 times
הַֽעֹרְקִ֥יםthe [ones who] gnaw
haorekimH6207 →
צִיָּ֑הa dry region
tziyahH6723 →
אֶ֝֗מֶשׁyesterday of
ʾemeshH570 →
שׁוֹאָ֥הruin
shoahH7722 →13 times
וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃and desolation
umeshoahH4875 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- 1 Samuel 22:1
So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
- 1 Kings 19:9
There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
- Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
- 1 Samuel 24:1–3
After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
- 1 Kings 18:4
Through
Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
it leads to
- Psalms 104:23
Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
- Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Job 39:5–7
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
- Psalms 104:23
About Job
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.