Job 30:3

King James Version (KJV)

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

In context

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

2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

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.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
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.