Job 30:3
“For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:”
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Job 30:3 Context
1But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke. 2Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished? 3For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste: 4Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate. 5They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)
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Other Translations for Job 30:3
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- King James Version
"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
- New American Standard Version (1995)
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
- American Standard Version (1901)
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
- Basic English Bible
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
- Darby Bible
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Webster's Bible
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
- World English Bible
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
- Youngs Literal Bible
They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 30:3
30:3 Solitary - Although want commonly drives persons to places of resort for relief, yet they were so conscious of their own guilt, that they shunned company, and for fear or shame fled into, and lived in desolate places.