Job 30:3
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.In other versions
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
ASV
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
BBE
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
DBY
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
WEB
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
YLT
For lack and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
ENG
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
WBT
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
BSB
In context
1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)