Job 30:3
World English Bible (WEB)
They 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 considered unworthy 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 tree are their food.
5 They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
Job 30:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
- KJV King James Version
- For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- 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.