Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageOur skin burns like an oven, parched and shriveled by the ravaging heat of famine.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GOur skin is scorched like a clay oven, from the raging heat of famine.
KJV
King James VersionOur skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleOur skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Footnotes
זַלְעֲפוֹת (zal'afot) is a rare and intense word for a burning, scorching blast — used elsewhere of scorching desert wind and consuming fever. The root זָלַע suggests something that devours greedily and violently. Commentators are divided between a burning fever caused by starvation and the scorching heat of drought; the word encompasses both. The F.O.G renders it 'raging heat'; the F.O.G Message adds 'parched and shriveled' to bring out the consuming, withering force of the word.
