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


In Context

1 "But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

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

4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

5 They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.

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 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 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.