KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 30:2–5
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Job 30:2
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
2Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished?
Job 30:3
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
3For want and famine they were ‖solitarie: flying into the wildernesse †in former time desolate and waste:
- Or, darke as the night.
- Heb. yesternight.
Job 30:4
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
4Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.
Job 30:5
5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
5They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:2
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To what purpose or use.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Power or strength; also an auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Benefit or advantage; also to benefit, improve, or advance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Advanced in age; having existed a long time; former or belonging to an earlier time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A period of life or history; the length or stage of one's life; or a generation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:3
Lack or need; poverty or deficiency; as a verb, to lack or be without.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Living alone; not having company.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Running or hastening away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Uninhabited, forsaken, or ruined.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Loss, destruction, desolation, or useless expenditure; also to consume, ruin, squander, or grow weak.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:4
To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument; figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Shrubs or clusters of shrubs.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A tree or shrub bearing berries of a bluish color, of a warm, pungent, sweet taste, yielding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The underground parts by which plants are fixed and nourished; figuratively, origins, causes, or established bases.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 30:5
To drive: to impel, force, urge, or move onward.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study5Behold, 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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Open the full verse study38(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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Open the full verse study13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
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Open the full verse study38¶ And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study25That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
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Open the full verse study32And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
33The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
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Open the full verse study12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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Open the full verse study10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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