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


In Context

1 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

2 The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

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

4 And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

5 Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

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 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 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.