Job 30:3

For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
- New American Standard Version (1995)

They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
- American Standard Version (1901)

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
- Basic English Bible

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
- Darby Bible

Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

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 from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Job 30:3

30:3 Solitary - Although want commonly drives persons to places of resort for relief, yet they were so conscious of their own guilt, that they shunned company, and for fear or shame fled into, and lived in desolate places.