Psalms 59:15
They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
BSB
ASV
They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
KJV
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Let them wander up and down for meat,.... Like hungry dogs; and grudge if they be not satisfied; or murmur and howl as dogs when hungry, and can find nothing to eat; or "when they shall not be satisfied, and shall lodge" (z); when they shall get nothing to satisfy their hungry appetite, and shall go to bed without a supper, and lie all night without food.
Let them wander up and down for meat. Like dogs that have missed the expected carcass, let them go up and down dissatisfied, snapping at one another, and too disappointed to be quiet and take the matter easily. And grudge if they be not satisfied. Let them act like those who cannot believe that they have lost their prey: like a herd of Oriental dogs, unhoused, unkennelled, let them prowl about seeking a prey which they shall never find. Thus the menial followers of Saul paraded the city in vain hope of satisfying their malice and their master.
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Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
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I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
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Job 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
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May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
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Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
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Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water…
Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king…