Job 30:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Barren with want and hunger, they gnawed in the wilderness: disfigured with calamity and misery.

Job 30:3 Cross References

Job 24:5

Like wild asses in the desert they go out to their toil, scavenging in the wasteland food for their young.

Job 30:2

What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone.

Job 30:4

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

Daniel 5:21

He was driven from human society, and his mind was made like that of an animal. His dwelling was with the wild asses, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and sets over it whomever he will.

Hebrews 11:38

of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground.