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Job 30

Job 30:3

Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt · Job 30:1–14
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Translations

Modern
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
Traditional
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Literal
…in poverty and in harsh hunger, ones gnawing the dry ground by night, in ruin and desolation.
Latin
…egestate et fame steriles, qui rodebant in solitudine, squallentes calamitate et miseria.

Original

Hebrew
English
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Notes

Job 30:2–3

In the past, the most important members of society praised Job (29:11). Now, the least important made fun of him and spit in his face (30:1, 10). Compare with Psalms 35:15; 69:12; Mark 14:65; 15:17–20.

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Glossary

Book of Job God, Names of

Topics

Persecution of Job Rocks used as Places for Shelter by the Poor in Their Distress