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Job 30:3
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Job 30:3
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Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed
[a]
the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
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Job 30:3 in Other Translations
KJV
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For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
ESV
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Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;
NLT
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They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
MSG
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Half-starved, scavenging the back alleys, howling at the moon;
CSB
3
Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.
Job 30:3 In-Context
1
“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
2
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
3
Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
4
In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.
5
They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.
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1.
Isaiah 8:21
2.
Job 24:5
3.
Jeremiah 17:6
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[a].
Or "gnawed"
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