Job 30:3

3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed[a] the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

Job 30:3 in Other Translations

KJV
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
ESV
3 Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;
NLT
3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
MSG
3 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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