Job 30:1-8

New International Version

30 “But now they mock me,^(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.^(B)
²Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
    since their vigor had gone from them?
³Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed^[a] the parched land^(C)
    in desolate wastelands^(D) at night.^(E)
⁴In the brush they gathered salt herbs,^(F)
    and their food^[b] was the root of the broom bush.^(G)
⁵They were banished from human society,
    shouted at as if they were thieves.
⁶They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
    among the rocks and in holes in the ground.^(H)
⁷They brayed^(I) among the bushes^(J)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.
⁸A base and nameless brood,^(K)
    they were driven out of the land.^(L)

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Job 30:3 Or gnawed
Job 30:4 Or fuel

Genesis 24:4-8

New International Version

⁴but will go to my country and my own relatives^(A) and get a wife for my son Isaac.^(B)”

⁵The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land?^(C) Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?^(D)”

⁶“Make sure that you do not take my son back there,”^(E) Abraham said. ⁷“The Lord, the God of heaven,^(F) who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land^(G) and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring^[a]^(H) I will give this land’^(I)—he will send his angel before you^(J) so that you can get a wife for my son from there. ⁸If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath^(K) of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”^(L)