Job 30:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.”

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BSBPD

“Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 30:3 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
  2. Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
  3. 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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