Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed[a] the parched land
    in desolate wastelands at night.
In the brush they gathered salt herbs,
    and their food[b] was the root of the broom bush.
They were banished from human society,
    shouted at as if they were thieves.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:3 Or gnawed
  2. Job 30:4 Or fuel