Catholic Public Domain Version
"They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery. "
— Job 30:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“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, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.
They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.