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What use did I have for their strength
    since they had lost their strength to work?
They were thin from hunger
    and wandered the dry and ruined land at night.
They gathered desert plants among the brush
    and ate the root of 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