They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery
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King James Version
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. English Standard Version
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;New International Version
Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.