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Oh, they have strong backs all right, but they are useless, stupid fools. They are gaunt with famine and have been cast out into deserts and the wastelands, desolate and gloomy. They eat roots and leaves,

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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