American Standard Version
"They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. "
— Job 30:3, American Standard Version
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
“They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.”
“gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.”
“Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.”
“They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.”
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.