NET Bible
"gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste."
— Job 30:3, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–
so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.