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The strength of their hands was useless to me.[a]
Their vigor had failed.
Emaciated from famine and hunger,
they gnawed desert plants in the desolate wasteland.
They picked marsh plants among the brush,
and their food was the roots of broom bushes.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:2 The pronouns their and they in verses 2 to 7 may refer either to the men in verse 1, to their fathers, or to both. The tenses, therefore, could be either past or present.