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


In Context

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

2 Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?

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

4 They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

5 They are driven forth from among 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 American Standard 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 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.