“Poor people are like wild donkeys\par wandering in the desert\par searching for food.\par They get up early in the morning\par to search for food.\par They work late into the evening\par getting food for their children.\par
Job 30:3 - Easy To Read Version They are like dead men—\par They are starving with nothing to eat.\par So they eat the dry dust of the desert.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For want and famine they were solitary; Fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry and barren ground or flee into the wilderness, into the gloom of wasteness and desolation. American Standard Version (1901) They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. Common English Bible Stiff from want and hunger, those who gnaw dry ground, yesterday’s desolate waste, Catholic Public Domain Version They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Barren with want and hunger, they gnawed in the wilderness: disfigured with calamity and misery. |
“Poor people are like wild donkeys\par wandering in the desert\par searching for food.\par They get up early in the morning\par to search for food.\par They work late into the evening\par getting food for their children.\par
The fathers of those young men\par are too weak to help me.\par They are old and tired—their muscles\par are not hard and strong any more.\par
They pull up salt plants in the desert.\par They eat the roots from the broom tree.\par
Then Nebuchadnezzar was forced to go away from people. His mind became like the mind of an animal. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like a cow. He became wet with dew. {\cf2\super [59]} These things happened to him until he learned his lesson. Then he learned that God Most High rules over the kingdoms of men. And God Most High sets anyone he wants over kingdoms.
The world was not good enough for these great people. These people wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground.