Bible in Basic English
"They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land."
— Job 30:3, Bible in Basic English
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
“They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. ”
“They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.”
But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.