Job 30:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 30:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 30:3 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. solitary: or, dar..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 30:3 — KJV
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. solitary: or, dark as the night in...: Heb. yesternight”
— Job 30:3 (KJV)
Job 30:3 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 30:3
“O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. furnish...: Heb. make thee instruments of captivity”
Shares key themes with Job 30:3: into, desolate, waste
“They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. meet...: or, run into”
Shares key themes with Job 30:3: into, time, dark
“They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. short: Heb. near”
Shares key themes with Job 30:3: into, dark, night
“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And the evening...: Heb. And the evening was, and the morning was etc.”
Shares key themes with Job 30:3: dark, night, heb
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. While...: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth”
Shares key themes with Job 30:3: time, night, heb
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