Job 30:3
Strong's Lexicon
Gaunt
גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד (gal·mūḏ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1565: 1) hard, barren, harsh, bleak 1a) harsh, bleak (of a company of wicked men) 1b) barren (of women)

from poverty
בְּחֶ֥סֶר (bə·ḥe·ser)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2639: 1) poverty, want

and hunger,
וּבְכָפָ֗ן (ū·ḇə·ḵā·p̄ān)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3720: 1) hunger, famine, painful hunger

they gnawed
הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים (ha·‘ō·rə·qîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6207: 1) (Qal) to gnaw, chew

the dry land,
צִיָּ֑ה (ṣî·yāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6723: 1) dryness, drought, desert

and the desolate
שׁוֹאָ֥ה (šō·w·’āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7722: n m 1) ravage n f 2) devastation, ruin, waste 2a) devastation, ruin 2b) ruin, waste (of land)

wasteland
וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃ (ū·mə·šō·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4875: 1) desolation, ruin

by night.
אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ (’e·meš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 570: 1) yesterday, last night 2) recently (fig.)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Young's Literal Translation
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Emaciated from  poverty and  hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

New American Standard Bible
"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

King James Bible
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

New Living Translation
They are gaunt with hunger and flee to the deserts, to desolate and gloomy wastelands.

English Standard Version
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;

New American Standard Bible
"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

King James Bible
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

International Standard Version
Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

NET Bible
gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

American Standard Version
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

English Revised Version
They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Young's Literal Translation
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
















Cross References
Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Daniel 5:21
And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Job 30:6
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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