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Their fathers are still too weak to be of any use to me.
    All their strength is gone.
They are starving with nothing to eat,
    so they chew on the dry, ruined land.
They pull up salt plants in the desert
    and eat the roots from the broom tree.

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Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
    since their vigor had gone from them?
Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed[a] the parched land(A)
    in desolate wastelands(B) at night.(C)
In the brush they gathered salt herbs,(D)
    and their food[b] was the root of the broom bush.(E)

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Footnotes

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