Job 30:3

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Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?	For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.	Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

For want^H2639 and famine^H3720 they were solitary^H1565; fleeing^H6207 into the wilderness^H6723 in former time^H570 desolate^H7722 and waste^H4875.

Original Hebrew

בְּחֶסֶר וּבְכָפָן גַּלְמוּד הַעֹרְקִים צִיָּה אֶמֶשׁ שֹׁואָה וּמְשֹׁאָה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
בְּ/חֶ֥סֶר	be./Che.ser	H2639	HR/Ncmsa	in/ poverty
וּ/בְ/כָפָ֗ן	u./ve./kha.Fan	H3720	HC/R/Ncmsa	and/ in/ hunger
גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד	gal.Mud	H1565	HAamsa	barren
הַֽ/עֹרְקִ֥ים	ha./'o.re.Kim	H6207	HTd/Vqrmpa	the/ (ones who) gnaw
צִיָּ֑ה	tzi.Yah	H6723	HNcfsa	a dry region
אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ	'E.mesh	H570	HD	yesterday of
שׁוֹאָ֥ה	sho.'Ah	H7722	HNcfsa	ruin
וּ/מְשֹׁאָֽה	u./me.sho.'Ah	H4875	HC/Ncfsa	and/ desolation

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H570 — אֶמֶשׁ (ʼemesh, eh'-mesh): time past, i.e.; yesterday or last night; former time, yesterday(-night)
H1565 — גַּלְמוּד (galmûwd, gal-mood'): probably by prolonged from גָּלַם; sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate; desolate, solitary.
H2639 — חֶסֶר (cheçer, kheh'-ler): from חָסֵר; lack; hence, destitution; poverty, want.
H3720 — כָּפָן (kâphân, kaw-fawn'): from כָּפַן; hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain); famine.
H4875 — מְשׁוֹאָה (mᵉshôwʼâh, meh-o-aw'): or מְשֹׁאָה; from the same as שׁוֹא; (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck); desolation, waste.
H6207 — עָרַק (ʻâraq, aw-rak'): a primitive root; to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a pain; fleeing, sinew.
H6723 — צִיָּה (tsîyâh, tsee-yaw'): from an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert; barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
H7722 — שׁוֹא (shôwʼ, sho): or (feminine) שׁוֹאָה; or שֹׁאָה; from an unused root meaning to rush over; a tempest; by implication, devastation; desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.

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