Job 30:3
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Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

solitary.

Job 24:13-16 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

fleeing into

Job 24:5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

Hebrews 11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.

in former time.

Context
Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself. 3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.…
Cross References
Job 30:2
The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

Job 30:4
And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Daniel 5:21
And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.

Lexicon
Gaunt
גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד (gal·mūḏ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1565: Sterile, desolate

from poverty
בְּחֶ֥סֶר (bə·ḥe·ser)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2639: Lack, destitution

and hunger,
וּבְכָפָ֗ן (ū·ḇə·ḵā·p̄ān)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3720: Hunger, famine

they gnawed
הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים (ha·‘ō·rə·qîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6207: To gnaw, eat, a pain

the dry land,
צִיָּ֑ה (ṣî·yāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6723: Aridity, a desert

and the desolate
שׁוֹאָ֥ה (šō·w·’āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7722: A tempest, devastation

wasteland
וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃ (ū·mə·šō·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4875: Desolation

by night.
אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ (’e·meš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 570: Yesterday, last night


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

One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

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

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

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.

With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
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