New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 30:3
3From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
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 younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock. 2Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them. From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation, 4Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub. 5They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,
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בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 30:3
- Job 24:13“Others have been with those who rebel against the light; They do not want to know its ways Nor abide in its paths.
- Job 24:5Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness They go forth seeking food in their activity, As bread for their children in the desert.
- Hebrews 11:38(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and 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
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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
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