KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 30:3–4
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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:
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