“Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.”
Job 30:3 (BSB)
Context Reading
1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs. 2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them? 3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night. 4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food. 5They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,