Job 30:3

In 11 translations

BSB

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

KJV

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.solitary: or, dark as the nightin…: Heb. yesternight

WEB

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

ASV

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

LSV

With want and with harsh famine, || They are gnawing a dry place [in] the recent night, || [In] desolation and ruin,

YLT

With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

DBY

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

DRC

Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

GNV

For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

JPS

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

LXXE

One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

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WLC

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος, οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
• Job 24:13–16Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. The eye of the…
• Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

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