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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 30 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.