Job 30:3

Job 30:3 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

3Haggard from want and hunger,

they roamed the parched land

in desolate wastelands at night.

3“From poverty and famine they are gaunt,

They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

3“They are gaunt with want and famine;

They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.

3Gaunt from poverty and hunger,

they gnawed the dry land,

and the desolate wasteland by night.

3They are gaunt with want and famine;

They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

3For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

3They are gaunt from lack and famine.

They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

3They were weak because they were needy and hungry.

They wandered through dry and empty deserts at night.

3They were weak and thin because they were hungry.

They had to look for food in the desert at night.

They found roots to eat in dry places.

3With want and with harsh famine, || They are gnawing a dry place [in] the recent night, || [In] desolation and ruin,