For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
The book that holds this text is the oldest book in the Bible and the oldest poetical book to have come down to us, and its writer is not known. It is divided into four parts, with a prologue in chapters 1 and 2 written in prose and an epilogue in chapter 42:7-17 written in prose. This text stands in chapters 4 to 31, which contain the debate between Job and his three friends on the subject of his afflictions in three circles of speeches by each, distinct from the speeches of Elihu in chapters 32 to 37 and the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud.
It describes people driven by want and famine into desolate and waste places, where they lived in isolation.
The book that holds this text is the oldest book in the Bible and the oldest poetical book to have come down to us, and its writer is not known. It is divided into four parts, with a prologue in chapters 1 and 2 written in prose and an epilogue in chapter 42:7-17 written in prose. This text stands in chapters 4 to 31, which contain the debate between Job and his three friends on the subject of his afflictions in three circles of speeches by each, distinct from the speeches of Elihu in chapters 32 to 37 and the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud.
It describes people driven by want and famine into desolate and waste places, where they lived in isolation.