Job 30:3

Job chapter 30 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

v.3This passage

v.4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 24:13
These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job 24:5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.
Hebrews 11:38
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.