job 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

job 30:3 "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

3. 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, and even there from time immemorial. I think both ideas are in the words darkness [GESENIUS] and antiquity [UMBREIT]. (Isa 30:33, Margin).

job 30:3 "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

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