Job 30:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Job 30:3 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 30:3 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
- Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
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