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


In Context

1 |But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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

4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

5 They are driven out 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 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 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.