Job 30:3
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
In context
1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
5 They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
Job 30:3 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- KJV King James Version
- For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- WEB World English Bible
- They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
- ASV American Standard Version
- They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
- WBS Webster Bible
- For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.