Job 30:3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

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New International Version
Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

English Standard Version
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;

New American Standard Bible
"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

International Standard Version
Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

Darby Bible 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,

Cross References

Job 30:2
Yes, 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 appoints over it whomsoever he will.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

30:1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. solitary—literally, "hard as a rock"; so translate, rather, "dried up," emaciated with hunger. Job describes the rudest race of Bedouins of the desert [Umbreit].

fleeing—So the Septuagint. Better, as Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, "gnawers of the wilderness." What they gnaw follows in Job 30:4.

in former time—literally, the "yesternight of desolation and waste" (the most utter desolation; Eze 6:14); that is, those deserts frightful as night to man, and even there from time immemorial. I think both ideas are in the words darkness [Gesenius] and antiquity [Umbreit]. (Isa 30:33, Margin).