3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
Job 30:3
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7 They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles. 8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land. 9 And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
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