What does Job 30:3 mean?

Job 30:3 highlights themes such as desolation, suffering, loneliness when read in context.

How should I apply Job 30:3 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

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

4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

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Lamentations 3:19
Both express the pain of desolation and suffering.
Matthew 25:35
Both highlight the plight of the needy and the importance of compassion.
Psalm 102:6
Both convey feelings of isolation and desolation.