Job 30:3

Job 30:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
• New International Version (NIV)Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;
• New King James Version (NKJV)They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,

Context of Job 30:3

1“But now those who are younger than I am laugh at me. I didn’t think their fathers were fit to sit with the dogs of my flock. 2Of what use to me was the strength of their hands? Their strength is gone. Shriveled up from need and hunger, they gnaw at the dry and barren ground during the night. 4They pick saltwort from the underbrush, and the roots of the broom plant are their food. 5They are driven from the community. People shout at them in the same way they shout at thieves.

Job 30:3 word by word

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For wantחֶ֫סֶרcheser · povertyH2639
• and famineכָּפָןkâphân · famineH3720
• solitaryגַּלְמוּדgalmûd · solitaryH1565
• fleeingעָרַק‛âraq · to gnawH6207
• into the wildernessצִיָּהtsîyâh · drynessH6723
• in former timeאֶ֫מֶשׁ'emesh · last nightH570
• desolateשׁוֹאָהshô' shô'âh shô'âh · devastationH7722
• and wasteמְשׁוֹאָהmeshô'âh meshô'âh · desolationH4875

Cross-references for Job 30:3

• Job 24:13“Such people are among those who rebel against the light. They are not acquainted with its ways. They do not stay on its paths.
• Job 24:5Like wild donkeys in the desert, poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. The plains provide food for their children.
• Hebrews 11:38The world didn’t deserve these good people. Some wandered around in deserts and mountains and lived in caves and holes in the ground.

Commentaries on Job 30:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Fleeing into the wilderness - Seeking something to sustain life even in the barren desert. This shows the extreme of want, when the desert is supposed to be the only place where any thing to sustain life can possibly be found.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For want and famine - By hunger and poverty their strength is wholly exhausted, and they are among the miserable outcasts of society. In order to show the depth to which he himself was sunk in public estimation, Job goes into a description of the state of these miserable wretches, and says that he was treated with contempt by the very scum of society, by those who were reduced to the most abject wretchedness, and who wandered in the deserts, subsisting on…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3In the past, the most important members of society praised Job (29:11). Now, the least important made fun of him and spit in his face (30:1, 10). Compare with Psalms 35:15; 69:12; Mark 14:65; 15:17–20.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. solitary--literally, "hard as a rock"; so translate, rather, "dried up," emaciated with hunger. Job describes the rudest race of Bedouins of the desert [Umbreit]. fleeing--So the Septuagint. Better, as Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, "gnawers of the wilderness." What they gnaw follows in Job 30:4. in former time--literally, the "yesternight of desolation and waste" (the most utter desolation; Eze 6:14); that is, those deserts frightful as night to man…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 30:3

• Persecution

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Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary