Job 30:3
What does Job 30:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 30:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
Context
Cross references
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.
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