King James Version

Job 30:3

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

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בְּחֶ֥סֶרbecheserin povertyחֶסֶרpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in poverty”, the ordinary formH2639lack; hence, destitutionpoverty, want.וּבְכָפָ֗ןuvekhafanand in famineכָּפָןconjunction, preposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and in famine”, the ordinary formH3720hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain)famine.גַּ֫לְמ֥וּדgalmuddesolateגַּלְמוּדadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “desolate”, the ordinary formH1565sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolatedesolate, solitary.הַֽעֹרְקִ֥יםhaoreqimthe fleeingעָרַקdefinite article, verb, qal, participle, absolute — “the fleeing”, a verb used as a describing wordH6207to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a painfleeing, sinew.צִיָּ֑הtsiyahbarrenצִיָּהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “barren”, the ordinary formH6723aridity; concretely, a desertbarren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.אֶ֝֗מֶשׁemeshyesterdayאֶמֶשׁadverb — “yesterday”H570yesterday or last nightformer time, yesterday(-night)שׁוֹאָ֥הshoahdesolateשׁוֹאnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “desolate”, the ordinary formH7722a tempest; by implication, devastationdesolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.וּמְשֹׁאָֽהumeshoahand desolationמְשׁוֹאָהconjunction, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “and desolation”, the ordinary formH4875(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)desolation, waste.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος, οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν.