Job 30:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; The wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

Hebrews 11:38

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

Job 30:2

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

Job 30:4

They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are 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; 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.