Job 30:3

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?

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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Sammenlign

ÅB
De er uttæret av nød og sult; de gnager på den tørre mo, som allerede igår var ørk og øde;
OTB
Av fattigdom og sult er de avmagret—
De som gnager den tørre bakken om natten i ødeleggelse og øde.
B1930
De er uttæret av nød og sult; de gnager på den tørre mo, som allerede igår var ørk og øde;
BSB
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
KJV
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
WEB
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
ASV
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
DARBY
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
BLB
in poverty and in harsh hunger, ones gnawing the dry ground by night, [in] ruin and desolation.

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Kryssreferanser

  • Job 24:5

    Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

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  • Hebrews 11:38

    (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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  • Job 24:13–16

    They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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