Job 30:3 KJV

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job 30:3, King James Version

In context

2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

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

4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.