Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; The wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
Job 30:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For want and famine they were solitary; Fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry and barren ground or flee into the wilderness, into the gloom of wasteness and desolation. American Standard Version (1901) They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. Common English Bible Stiff from want and hunger, those who gnaw dry ground, yesterday’s desolate waste, Catholic Public Domain Version They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Barren with want and hunger, they gnawed in the wilderness: disfigured with calamity and misery. |
Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; The wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their meat.
and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will.
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.