Job 30:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

For want and famine Brought upon them either by their own sloth or wickedness, or by God's just judgment. Hebrew, בחסר, becheser, In want and famine, which aggravates their following solitude. They were solitary, &c. Although want commonly draws persons to places of resort and company for relief, yet they were so conscious of their own guilt, and contemptibleness, and hatefulness to all persons, that they shunned all company, and for fear or shame fled into and lived in desolate places.

Job 30:3

3 For want and famine they were solitary;b fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.