Scripture · Old Testament

Job 30:3

Job 30:3 is verse 3 of Job chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

Job 30:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

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

4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

5 They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 24:13
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

Job 24:14
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:15
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Job 24:5
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Hebrews 11:38
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.