Holy Scripture
Job 30:4
A church father on this verse
“Who gnawed in solitude, being scurvy with calamity and misery, and chewed herbs and the barks of trees. And juniper roots for their meat. All heretics, whilst in sacred Revelation they make it their aim to dive into secrets of God beyond what they are capable of, by their hunger become barren. For they do not seek tho…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, Who had salt herbs for their food, And were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; Who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.
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2Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? For them the full term of life was lost.
3One is childless in want and famine, Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
— Job 30:4 —
5Thieves have risen up against me,
6Whose houses were the caves of the rocks, Who lived under the wild shrubs.