3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.


In Context

1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

2 Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

4 They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

5 They are driven forth from the midst of men ; They cry after them as after a thief;

Job 30:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:3For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:3Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:3They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.