Job 30:3
Good News Translation
They were so poor and hungry that they would gnaw dry roots--at night, in wild, desolate places.

New Revised Standard Version
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground,

Contemporary English Version
They must claw the desert sand in the dark for something to satisfy their hunger.

New American Bible
In want and emaciating hunger they fled to the parched lands: to the desolate wasteland by night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

solitary.

Job 24:13-16 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

fleeing into

Job 24:5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

Hebrews 11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.

in former time.

Context
Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself. 3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.…
Cross References
Job 30:2
The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

Job 30:4
And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Daniel 5:21
And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.

Job 30:2
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