World English Bible
"They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation."
— Job 30:3, World English 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. ”
“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 who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.