Job 30:3-5

The Voice

³     Gaunt from starvation, haggard from hunger that drives them to gnaw the ground in the night,
        a ground all wasted and hollowed-out,
⁴     They are left with the desperate foods of the famished—
        plucking mallow from the bushes by the salt marshes,
        and making the ashy broom tree root their staple.
⁵     The people from the town chase each one out of his neighborhood;
        they howl at all of them as if they were common thieves,