Job 30:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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)

³ They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Common English Bible

³ Stiff from want and hunger, those who gnaw dry ground, yesterday’s desolate waste,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.

Job 30:3 Cross References

Job 24:5

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Job 30:2

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

Job 30:4

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

Daniel 5:21

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: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Hebrews 11:38

of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.