Job 30:3 - Exposition

For want and famine they were solitary ; rather, they were gaunt ( see the Revised Version). Compare the descriptions given to us of the native races of Central Africa by Sir S. Baker, Speke, Grant, Stanley, and others. Fleeing into the wilderness ; rather, gnawing the wilderness ; i.e. feeding on such dry and sapless roots and fruits as the wilderness produces. In former time desolate and waste; or, on the eve of wasteness and desolation .