ASV: They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
BBE: They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
DBY: Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
KJV: For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
JPS: They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
WBS: For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
WEB: They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
YLT: With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
