For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Gill's Exposition
For want and famine they were solitary,.... The Targum interprets it, without children; but then this cannot be understood of the fathers; rather through famine and want they were reduced to the…
Barnes' Notes
For want and famine - By hunger and poverty their strength is wholly exhausted, and they are among the miserable outcasts of society. In order to show the depth to which he himself was sunk in public…
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit…
Description of this wretched class of outcasts. The tensesshould all be put in the present. The race of people referred to appears to be the same as that in ch. 24.