Job 30:3

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Geneva Bible 1599

For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

Darby Translation

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

Young's Literal Translation

With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

Bible in Basic English

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

In context

2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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